The Art of the Affair

Novelist Catherine Lacey and the illustrator Forsyth Harmon team up to draw (literal) lines between artists' marriages, flings, rivalries and assorted other connections. Some couplings in the survey are better known than others; some were more fully consummated than others. Wending its way through Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Anaïs Nin and Gore Vidal, the book ends with Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, who, Lacey writes, 'seemed to have had the sort of relationship we should all aspire to.' New York Times Book Review