pickA collection of quotes from contemporaries. It‘s a messy production, but still, I found it interesting. The editors chose who they thought was of interest and then gave an intro for each writer or editor or critic. It ends up as an overview of an era (1920‘s to 1950‘s)
Kay Boyle (1902-1992):
Asked whether something special characterized the 1920s:
There was indeed. It was the revolt against all literary pretentiousness, against weary, dreary rhetoric, against all the outworn literary and academic conventions. Our slogans were Down with Henry James, down with Edith Wharton, down with the sterility of "The Waste Land"… ?
#whartonbuddyread ?
Edith Wharton, for example, the grande dame of American letters nearing the end of her career, wrote to a friend in 1934: "What a country! With Faulkner and Hemingway acclaimed as the greatest American novelists, & magazine editors still taking the view they did when I began to write! Brains & culture seem nonexistent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, ?
Finally, baseball is back. Also I‘m trying to read this collection of contemporary responses to Hemingway and Faulkner. It‘s a little bit of info overload. So reading in nibbles (and hoping the library is patient with me)
Hemingway and Faulkner in Their Time | 
