Talk:Peter D. Martin

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As a friend of Peter Martin, he never mentioned to me that he was a college professor. Instead, I was told, he had talent as an editor. As to his relationship with his father, he mostly saw him in bars. Pete told me his father’s assassination could have resulted from a misguided affair with a married woman, not a fascist hit.

I met Pete through Thomas Edwards Wanning, a close friend of Elisabeth Bishop. As an avid reader, Tommy invested in the New Yorker Bookstore, but only contributed $1,000, and over the years constantly took books off the shelf and never paid for them! Of course, the store never showed a profit. Cocktails at their Fair Harbor, Fire Island, summer house, parties at the Martins at their apartment overlooking the Hudson River and at the bookstore, it was all great fun for Tommy and me with Pete, who was once appropriately called a “barroom intellectual.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:E248:CE00:E028:3DBB:6708:2B14 (talk • contribs) 09:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)