I Gave Up Writing Blurbs Because You

It's So Wrong When I Pick Up A New Edition Of Huckleberry Finn And I Look At The Last Page And It Doesn't Say, Yours Truly, At The End.

Critics? How Do They Happen? I Know How It Happened To Me. I Would Send A Poem Or Story To A Magazine And They Would Say This Doesn't Suit Our Needs Precisely But On The Other Hand You Sound Interesting. Would You Be Interested In Doing A Review?

Hemingway Seems To Be In A Funny Position. People Nowadays Can't Identify With Him Closely As A Member Of Their Own Generation, And He Isn't Yet Historical.

Unless Criticism Refuses To Take Itself Quite So Seriously Or At Least To Permit Its Readers Not To, It Will Inevitably Continue To Reflect The Finicky Canons Of The Genteel Tradition And The Depressing Pieties Of The Culture Religion Of Modernism.

Henry Miller Wrote Novels, But He Calls His Protagonist Henry, Often Henry Miller, And His Books Are In This Gray Area Between Memoir And Novel.