Hangs out at Steve Paul's The Scene; encounters Edie Sedgewick. Piper reads Freud, Edmund Wilson, Melville. Works through Russian phase (Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov, Dostoievsky, all in Constance Garnett translation), German phase (Hesse, Mann, Böll, Brecht, Musil, Grass), French phase (Sartre, Camus, Balzac, Zola, Stendhal, Proust, de Maupassant, Gide, Gautier), Scandinavian phase (Lagervist, Hamsun, Strindberg, Undset, Bergman, Sjöström). Multiple viewings of Bergman Trilogy (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence).