19 February (1949): Kenneth Patchen to Kenneth Rexroth
This time I got mad, decided to go down and picket with a sign in front of Times Bldg: I CHALLENGE THE RIGHT OF THE...
18 February (1962): Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman
You and Jonathan Williams have thrown off the shackles of the sentence and the wide melody. For me the sentence lies in wait—all those prepositions...
17 February (1971): Anne Sexton to Stanley Kunitz
It’s strange that you say I’m “too tough” for my “blazing hurry” (that sentence makes no sense, but you know what I mean). People are...
16 February (1953): Amy Clampitt to Philip Clampitt
Why are people so afraid of being enthusiastic? I don’t think it’s so much laziness as the fear of turning out to be wrong....
13 February (1945): Vladimir Nabokov to Edmund Wilson
It is a rare illness, as is everything about me, and I have had it already twice in my life.
12 February (1948): William Gaddis to Charles Socarides
But this growing fiction fits so insanely well with fact of life that sometimes I can not stand it, must burst (as I am doing...
11 February (1935): Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Maxwell E. Perkins
My dinner partner was an inoffensive preacher, and I disgraced myself thoroughly by asking my hostess what the devil she meant by putting me next...
10 February (1917): John Dos Passos to Arthur K. McComb
If death wasn’t such a very simple humdrum thing, even death would become ridiculous by the tinsel griefs, the red eyes and black crape and...
9 February (1984): M.F.K Fisher to Norah Kennedy Barr, Anna Parrish, and Mary Kennedy Wright
As for the expense, they cost no more than the kind of rest-home or nursing-home you might find, that you would want me to end...
6 February (1939): Tennessee Williams to Edwina Dawkins Williams
Things came to a climax this past week when a Jewish society photographer in the first floor studio gave a party and Mrs. Anderson expressed...
5 February (1872): Ralph Waldo Emerson to John Muir
And there are drawbacks also to Solitude, who is a sublime mistress, but an intolerable wife.
4 February (1963): Ayn Rand to W.T. Stace
I would be very interested to hear your comments on the ethical alternative I discuss in that article—the example of the husband who has to...
3 February (1937): E.B. White to John R. Fleming
I am going to set a hen on some turkey eggs this spring to tone myself up and prove that a man can fail at...
2 February (1925): Willa Cather to President Tomáš Masaryk
The life of our Middle West is so big and various, so ugly and so beautiful, that one vcannot generalize about it. All one can...
30 January (1946): John Cheever to Josie Herbst
A lot of fairly conservative people (and the inflation has made a lot of people fairly conservative) speak continually of Communism; but I’m going all...
29 January (1958): Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell
They seem exactly like what I’d always wanted, vaguely, to hear and never had, and really “contemporary.” That strange kind of modesty that I think...
28 January (1964): Mari Sandoz to Annie Laurie Williams
Encumbering Dull Knife with a fictitious son to steal the wife of his father’s great co-leader, Little Wolf, seems overt libel to me, compounded by...
27 January (1941): Edgar Rice Burroughs to Herbert T. Weston
What do you think of your old friend Mussolini now? He has been the one bright spot in my life during the past several weeks....
26 January (1959): Dawn Powell to Phyllis Powell Cook
I couldn’t sleep because I have an appointment in two hours to see a man about a job—a role I haven’t played for some time....
23 January (1927): Lina Elise Grey to Zane Grey
If anything, I’d lay it to Mildred’s prattle about being your literary assistant and being so indispensable to you. She sure must have spread that...
22 January (1944): James Agee to Father Flye
I'm very sorry not to have returned David's letter long before this. It got mixed up in a change of coats, then in my work,...
21 January (1954): Mary McCarthy to Hannah Arendt
The new Madame is a Mlle. Carole, in her late thirties, smoking a perpetual cigarette and wearing a red bolero jacket and a little English...
20 January (1947): Robert Lowell to Peter Taylor
Our interview was miserable. The psychiatrist, a well-trained unimaginative young woman, insisted that I stop stalling and get the divorce over with as soon as...
19 January (1924): Jean Toomer to Alfred Stieglitz
The camera became significant because you touched it. The sky, because you saw it. But first of all you saw yourself. Secondly, you knew the...
