Morning Bites: Sabrage, Marie Chaix, Proust’s Mom, Richard Hell, Bill Wilder’s Footsteps, and More

Did you hear that The Mingle is tonight at The Dalloway? You should come, because maybe somebody will be there knocking of the tops of champagne bottles with a saber. Who knows? (Actually, we’re assuming this isn’t allowed at The Dalloway, so you probably won’t see it.)

Colm Tóibín on Proust at the Morgan.

Richard Hell will be “Upstairs at the Square” on March 14th.

The writing saved me, I think. But writing was this whole process and I didn’t know it. I just jumped into writing, as something I had to do.” – Sarah Gerard talks with Marie Chaix at The Paris Review. 

Finding where Billy Wilder’s The Apartment was filmed.

Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls and Bunheads) writes for Vulture about how Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner taught her “That She was a Real Jew.” 

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