Alluded to by a friend (recipient of a Gay Lives postcard with a portrait of W. Somerset Maugham), this story from The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (general ed., Clifton Fadiman, 1985): Somerset Maugham believed that early nights would keep him young, a habit his friend, the society hostess Emerald Cunard, found irritating. As he … Continue reading Today’s delicious ambiguity