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In a career of writing extraordinary books, David Pryce-Jones has written a new one: “Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime.” DP-J has a collection of about a hundred books inscribed to him by their authors: Aldous Huxley, W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, Somerset Maugham, Rebecca West, Erich Segal, and so on. He talks about these authors in “Signatures.” The book is a series of brief lives, you might say, or brief encounters. (Sounds like the title of a movie.) It is also partly an autobiography, because the encounters provide windows on DP-J’s own life.
“Signatures” is, in effect, a companion to “Fault Lines,” Pryce-Jones’s superb and magisterial autobiography of 2015.
DP-J is one of Jay’s dearest friends and favorite people, and Jay enjoys this conversation immensely. You may well too.
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