Vienna, Austria

Then they went on to discuss the new authors who were being published by Bubis and Bubis’s colleagues in Munich and Cologne and Frankfurt and Berlin, as well as the publishing houses firmly established in Zurich or Bern and those resurfacing in Vienna.

Once in the lobby, I was pounced upon and spirited away, much like Holly Martins in The Third Man, when he was herded from his hotel in Vienna to deliver a talk about the role of the existential cowboy in American literature.