Trifles Make Perfection: The Selected Essays of Joseph Wechsberg Religious Buildings and now the Fairy Olympics

and now the Fairy Olympics are going all wrong

the name of the goal

create new patterns

and learning from mistakes

Trifles Make Perfection: The Selected Essays of Joseph Wechsberg Religious Buildings and now the Fairy OlympicsA Moravian by birth, a musician by avocation, a writer by choice, and a bon vivant by instinct, Wechsberg was set squarely among a generation of mid century writers that included A. J. Liebling, M. F. K. Fisher, Waverly Root, and Ludwig Bemelmans. Many of them found a home at the New Yorker and were routinely provided carte blanche to tackle any subject they found interesting. For Wechsberg, this meant the cultural life of the civilized world, which