Highlights include Peter Schjeldahl's obit/feature from the Village Voice in 1966 and Patsy Southgate's somewhat salacious recounting of a particular evening with O'Hara.

The details of Frank's condition just before his death are somewhat wrenching, but the memories of his emotional state are happy ones...Enjoy.

Jan Kulozik is an engineer, and a good one, in a future where you are either aristocracy, or nothing. A world where records of the past have been cleaned up and nicefied, and the rich are the only ones with decent lives.

Going on a vacation with a woman one day, sailing at night, he is dumped in the water, only to be rescued by a submarine form a mysterious country called "Israel" where they have a strange form of government called "democracy". He is informed that he has been living a lie, that the world isnt what it seems, that people are trying to fight against oppression, etc.

Jan is convinced to help the Israelies and joins the revolution. Because of his status in society, and the his brohter-in-law is the head of Security, he is quickly accepted. Disaster falls, however, and leads Jan to in the end be trancferred to another planet, where the second novel, Wheelworld comes in.

Wheelworld: A world where the sun rises and sets once every 4 years. The planet is one large farming community that travels south or north alternately to stay with the night. However, the ships havent come on time, the harvest has already been reaped, and it's time to go south. But the Road is getting old, and things are beginning to break down, and the ships continue to not come, and only an off-worlder like Jan can save the day, the crops, and the people, before the terrible sun bakes then to death. But can he do it with the entire world, all the people, technology, and universe seemingly wanting him dead? Note: this takes place several years after Homeworld.

Starworld, the final book in the trilogy, takes place right after Wheelworld. The rebellion has taken over all the colonies, and now all that is left is Earth. The problem is, Earth is virtually impenetrable, and the rebellion has only so many fighting forces, or workable ships. They do, however, have an ace up their sleeve, aS Jan once more works wonders, this time in America, then back to England, and actually begins to work for his Brother-in-law, Smythe, the head of Security, in an attempt to bring the revolution to the planet. But all is not what it seems, and there is a traitor in the revolution's mists. The clock is ticking, and if Jan cannot get to the Revolution forces in time with vital information about when to strike, along with uprisings all over Earth, disaster could occur, and the universe would be at the mercy once more of the aristocrats. Will Jan succeed, and return back home to his wife, or possibly stay and live the ife of Riley with unlimited money and access, or will he fail, and all of humanity once again falls underneath the tyrranical grip of the rich? Read, and find out for yourself.

The book covers a panoply of styles, from "Country Luxe" to "New International" to "Mid-Century Modern" and beyond. The shabby warmth of English-inspired rooms is covered, as is the prissier French look--but as HOUSE & GARDEN so often does, there is almost always a visual wrench thrown into the works to get your attention and make you rethink your assumptions about a particular genre. Perfectly making the point is the photograph on p. 25, which shows an 18th-century settee decorously covered in a taupe damask, above which hangs what appears to be a piece of Spirograph art made with screamingly bright primary oil paints. The effect is jarring--but it works.

The thinking which goes into the decoration of these rooms is explored just as deeply as the looks themselves. Although photographs take up most of the room--as they should, since this is a case when a picture telling a thousand words is not only desirable, but necessary for instructing the reader--the text is informative and enlightening. The end result is that these profoundly individual rooms make their own cases, and what beautiful cases they make.