Finding Dakota

I sort of felt like I needed to have something new to say about John.

And I had read a good deal about his last year; there was a book by John's personal assistant, Fred Seaman, that was helpful. There was a book by his tarot card reader.

I read memoirs, read his letters. But my sense, what I wanted to say, was that John's last year was about being a father, and thinking back on his own father, and about going to sea. So John learned how to sail that spring, he bough a sailboat, the Isis, and he sailed out of Cold Spring Harbor, and then he planned this trip through the Bermuda Triangle, from Rhode Island to Bermuda, and along the way, he had a harrowing storm, and the captain, a man named Hank Halsted, turned the boat over to John at one point because everybody else was seasick And when he gets to Bermuda, he's had a five-year drought before that, and he writes all of Double Fantasy in about ten days.

I needed another focus, and I needed the book, really, to be about the Winters, and so all of the focus is really on, will Buddy get a new show?

I guess I'm not giving away too much to say that he does, eventually, and John's storyline is invested in that one, without saying more. Tom Barbash's new novel tells the story of Anton Winter, who returns to his parents' apartment in the Dakota in , after a spell in the Peace Corps in Africa — and a spell of malaria.

His father, a late-night talk show host named Buddy Winter, has just walked off his show and into a breakdown. Father and son pal around Manhattan, and hob-nob with Kennedys, John and Yoko, and other bold-faced names as Buddy Winter tries to figure a way back into the limelight. Barbash says he grew up very near the Dakota, "and it was always this great, looming, haunted castle.

But I wanted to write about people who were neighbors of John Lennon in the year before his assassination, that was the first conceit.

And then I discovered that it was really more about this father and son. Both Buddy and John, that's part of their friendship, they call themselves "the Dakota househusbands.

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He's very sympathetic to him, and that's something that Anton senses. I sort of felt like I needed to have something new to say about John. Looking for some part time work b Police Officer City of West Fargo.

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