Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson
For the romantic: About Alice, by Calvin Trillin
For the (sentimental) cynic: 69 Love Songs, by the Magnetic Fields
The best romantic comedy ever made: It Happened One Night, starring Cary Grant Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
If litereary history/theory floats your boat: Love in the Western World, by Denis de Rougemont (aka the love=death book)
On the love of a parent: Who She Was, by Sam Freedman
On women's sexual liberation: Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong (a pulpy and weird novel that blew my mind at 19. Dated, but it does a lot to explain 1970s feminism)
It Happened One Night stars Clark Gable, not Cary Grant. But you're right, it is a great movie.
Posted by: Robert Rothman | February 15, 2011 at 02:46 PM