Newberry Library - Bender, Eleanor M., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1971-1972

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Open book Bender, Eleanor M., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1971-1972

Title Bender, Eleanor M., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1971-1972

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1971-1972

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription November 10, 1971Dear Jack, I have just finished reading "Days Of the Anvil" in the issue of American Book Collector which you sent to me. I found the article very comforting, particularly in view of my current turmoil with Open Places. There are many differences between your experiences with Anvil and my Open Places. The most obvious difference is that you had a definite social, if not political, motivation in publishing Anvil. I never had any real purpose in mind in starting O.P. other than to publish poems that I liked and to keep myself busy and involved with some segments of the literary mode. I have never been a writer myself, but have always been very much in love with writers and writing - rather adolescent I know. So between having babies - I have three daughters - the magazine seemed a more interesting outlet for me than anything else I might possibly undertake. Besides, it is what I wanted to do without any more real reasoning about it than that. I have no particular intellectual ideas about what should or should not be published. So Open Places is a rather mixed bag of tastes and styles. I began the magazine in theFall of 66' when my husband I were living in New York City. He was teaching English at Brooklyn College. In 68',

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 2 Folder 114

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 4445px × 5731px 145.80 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00002_fl_00114_000002.tif

Unique Identifier NL119Y6T

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