Newberry Library - Brewster, Dorothy, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1935-1966

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Open book Brewster, Dorothy, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1935-1966

Title Brewster, Dorothy, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1935-1966

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1935-1966

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

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User-Contributed Transcription Sounds disgustingly highbrow--doesn't it? Years ago I had a small list of favorite reviewers, who were really helpful--Do you remember the late Robert Morss Lovett? & there was the still flourishing Joseph Wood Krutch, my colleague at Columbia, who retired to the Arizona desert some years ago, & does beautiful books on wild life & the balance of nature, & so on. About all I read nowadays is the Herald-Trib-BookWeek-the Nation-The American Scholar-now & then the Saturday Review & the New Statesman. But I do remember that some of the most intelligent reviews of books I have written came from newspapers here & there through the country, &, in England, provincial papers.The review you sent me aroused the reflection--rather usual, after reading book reviews--that the reviewer hadn't read the book. He

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 4 Folder 182

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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