“How to Keep a Man”
The Andy Warhol Diaries“How to Keep a Man” is a piece of relationship advice Jerry Hall gives on the ride home in a limousine: prioritize a man’s immediate desires, she suggests, and he may be less inclined to seek sex elsewhere. The diary presents it as a revealing blend of bluntness, humor, and confidence between friends, not as a tested rule or a solemn prescription.
The Advice and Its Setting
Jerry Hall offers the philosophy during a private conversation on the way home. She frames it as advice she can share because the diarist will keep it confidential, then laughs. The setting matters: the maxim arrives not as public instruction but as an intimate confidence, delivered with a comic awareness of its provocative directness.
Voice and Narrative Function
The diarist calls Hall funny and says she can also make remarks that seem foolish, a judgment complicated by his admiration for her ability to recall the names of everyone she met in Iran. He compares the experience of talking with her to conversations with Jane Forth. In this short recollection, the advice becomes part of a broader portrait of Hall’s conversational range: irreverent and startling one moment, remarkably attentive to people the next.
