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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 I have no particular intellectual ideas about what should or should not be published.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',
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
Archival Collection Title
Jack Conroy papers
Rights Status
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Contributing Institution
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Call Number
Midwest MS Conroy Box 2 Folder 114
BibID
992006198805867
Size
4445px × 5731px 145.80 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00002_fl_00114_000002.tif
Unique Identifier
NL119Y6T
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