Lüchow's and fiction books, including "La Bonne Table" (1964) by Ludwig Bemelmans, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1975) by Judith Rossner, "The Anatolian" (1982) by Elia Kazan, "My Life as Author and Editor" (1993, posthumous) by H. L. Mencken, "Sidewalk Critic" (1998, posthumous) by Lewis Mumford, and "The Stories of John Cheever" (2011) by John Cheever. Mencken wrote, "Nathan and I saw him for the last time at lunch at Lüchow's in June 1920. He looked somewhat thin and pasty, but we ascribed his appearance, not to illness, but to the fact that he was drinking tea. Tea in Lüchow's, the citadel
Looking for Mr. Goodbar a rare kind of book: both a compelling 'page turner' and a superior roman à clef." "Newsweek" found the book to be a "hard, fast, frightening read." "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" was also a commercial blockbuster: on June 22, 1975, it entered the "New York Times" best seller list, and would remain there for 36 weeks, three of those weeks at #1. It sold over four million copies, becoming the fourth highest-selling novel of the year. Paramount Pictures purchased film rights to the novel for $250,000. The film, written and directed by Richard Brooks, was released in 1977, and starred