Sublime

I’d spent a year in Dodgeville, Wisconsin—working

I have now heard—and am powerless to describe—reggae elevator music.

wen.

Then he and Scribner discussed a limited edition of William Butler Yeats’s works.

The city fascinated Wolfe, and when he was not working, he enjoyed nothing more than walking through every part of town with his editor.

Otis

Once Hemingway signed with Scribners, Max Perkins thereupon became the moderator in the literary friendship between Ernest and Scott.

Then, Max wrote, S. S. Van Dine called “to give notice” that he would bring in his newest manuscript—

the first story that, as he later put it, “rang his cherries” was Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”