Robert Giroux
was shocked and disappointed by the stupidity . . . the lack of perception, or even the lack of having an open mind among the (few) reviews.
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
She had begun Wise Blood around Christmas 1946. Its earliest form was The Train, the last story in her MFA thesis collection; its inspiration was an offer from Rinehart
publishers of $150.00 for a...
Publishing
Flannery O'Connor
This collection was the first fruits of her life with her mother
on the farm Andalusia, narrowed down by the constraints of her illness. Years later she wrote of the delusion that her writing...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Bishop
EB
was interested in the art of letter-writing. She owned the printed letters of a large number of authors from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and discussed or to referred to many of them...
