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High life

Taki: How I learned to write

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

Gstaad

 What I miss most up here in the Alps are the literary lunches conducted on the fly with writers like Bill Buckley, Alistair Horne, Natacha Stewart, occasionally Dmitri Nabokov and, yes, movie star and memoirist par excellence David Niven. This was back in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, during the winter months and in between ski runs.

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