Beauregard Coverdale

I totally forgot about this character. He somehow dropped out of the main line of the narrative. Looking through an old, recently-recovered blog just now I found this entry from July 1, 2007:

A tiny piece of my novel To My Twenty-Fifth Century Biographers has come together over the weekend. This section is about the great uncle of Dr. Lisa Coverdale, who was featured in a story in The Velveeta Underground. Beauregard Coverdale, as a young man, fought with the Jefferson Davis Brigade in Spain against the Communists. Actually, he spent most of his time seducing young fascist soldiers in dive bars in Madrid. During WWII he was an OSS officer managing a ring of spies inside Germany from a penthouse in Lisbon. Beginning in the late forties he seduced a wide assortment of men prominent in the arts and politics in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, and photographed them, or at least some of their body parts. In the sixties he was one of the pioneers of holography. But since he was employed by the CIA he never pursued a professional career in the arts. After his death Lisa's sister, the evil Laurel Coverdale, who was the executor of his estate, brought his works into the public realm. As it turns out, old Beauregard, who was a pure top, liked to photograph the assholes of his conquests before and after having sex with them. And then many years later he created a number of pieces he referred to in his journals as "Assholograpy".  Laurel Coverdale is the Executive Vice President of the Columbine Foundation, whose mission statement reads: To Put a Handgun in the Locker of Every School Kid in America. Laurel's prep school classmate, Patricia Wilkerson, agrees to mount the first show of Beauregards's work at her Wastrel Gallery space on W.24th Street. The show consists of before and after photographs and holograms titled: "Truman" (Capote), "Allen" (Ginsberg), "Andy" (Warhol), and "Roy" (Cohn).