New Yorker magazine remembers lunch with Ian Fleming

It�s a little hard to believe, but the first James Bond movie, �Dr. No,� was released more than a half-century ago, on October 5, 1962.

At that time, Ian Fleming, the writer of the James Bond novels, was fifty-three. In April of that year (when Daniel Craig, it�s worth pointing out, was negative five), The New Yorker�s Geoffrey Hellman met Fleming for lunch at the Pierre (now the Taj).

Fleming was in New York to visit his publishers. He�d stopped en route between his vacation house, in Jamaica (where Dr. No also has a hideaway) and his home in London. You can read the whole conversation here, in the archive. Or, if you�re too impatient or not a subscriber, click here to read the key points.

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