Twice over lightly Book

Anita Loos was my first favorite author when I moved to New Orleans and started reading books I found at all of the used book stores in the Quarter;
not only a favorite for her titles ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", "A Cast of Thousands", "Kiss Hollywood Goodbye", "A Girl Like I", but also because she was unapologetically acerbic, an iconoclast (except for her adoration of H.L. Mencken) and an honest example of the Jazz Age sensibility for all of her life.
This, her last book, was written with long time pal actress Helen Hayes who spent a year together (in proper suits and pearls and handbags) walking around early 1970s hippie-filled New York City, peering into dark corners. It is hilarious and sweet, so I re-read it when life gets a bit too much in my modern life.