Hotel Splendide as likely to make you

as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry" (The Washington Post)

she's a survivor

winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor

and desperate designers

Hotel Splendide as likely to make you"Truly a great book unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better." Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel In