The Strange Reality of The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig: https://amzn.to/447QIag
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig: https://amzn.to/3PxWY6o
An Impossible Exile by George Prochnik: https://amzn.to/3psJtdN
NY Times article by Christopher Gray: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/re...

Thank You to Dave Wiskus for the footage of 22 Vanderbilt
& to Barbara Ender for the photo of the Village Voice Bookshop
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