August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
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Vol. 25 No. 16 · 21 August 2003
pages 3-9 | 11036 words
Cutty, One Rock
August Kleinzahler
They didn’t look like hoods, more like mid-career bureaucrats, fortyish, chubby, thick glasses. But they’d brought two good-looking molls with them; I can’t imagine they were even 18: blonds, Marty and Will. It fell to me to keep the boys entertained while my brother retired to his bedroom with the two Mafiosi for what was to be a very, very serious conversation. My brother had warned me that there was a good chance they’d kill him, and, without spelling it out, that if I was on hand my own health might be in jeopardy. We were very close at that stage. I loved my brother, more than anyone in the world, and didn’t have anywhere else to go.
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Letters
Vol. 25 No. 18 · 25 September 2003
From Rob Close
If August Kleinzahler's imitations of his brother (LRB, 21 August), 'down to his eccentric handwriting and way of holding a whiskey glass' were learned while out with his brother in the bars of New York, where his drink of choice was 'Cutty, one rock', then surely that's a whisky glass.
Rob Close
Drongan, Ayrshire
Vol. 25 No. 19 · 9 October 2003
From Rod McLoughlin
Rob Close's lexical fastidiousness (Letters, 25 September) does not go quite far enough. No doubt a great deal of whisky, including Cutty Sark, is drunk in New York, but almost all of it, surely, is drunk from whiskey glasses?
Rod McLoughlin
Rochdale
