P. G. Wodehouse and Rex Stout were contemporaries and friends, I recently learned.<\/p>\n
The opening pages of Stout’s Champagne For One<\/i> read like a Bertie Wooster story: an acquaintance known as Dinky, feigning laryngitis, rings to beg that the narrator take his place at an aunt’s annual dinner party.<\/p>\n
Maybe it only seems more wodehousy than usual because I happen to have a Penguin edition, printed in a typeface that’s not used much on this side of the water (Plantin, a favorite of mine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
P. G. Wodehouse and Rex Stout were contemporaries and friends, I recently learned. The opening pages of Stout’s Champagne For One read like a Bertie Wooster story: an acquaintance known as Dinky, feigning laryngitis, rings to beg that the narrator … Continue reading