A love letter to The Carlyle, by novelist Christopher Bollen

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In my careless youth, I wasn’t always so well-behaved in the world’s great hotels. I climbed out of a window and traversed a three-storey drop to enter a party in a neighbouring suite at LA’s Chateau Marmont; I also swam naked in its pool. I passed out at dawn on a friend’s sofa at the Ritz Paris. I hosted an afterparty from my bathtub at the Alvear Palace in…