The Hudson Review, October 1st, 2006
Clifford Odets
IF CLIFFORD ODETS WAS AN OVERVALUED PLAYWRIGHT in the thirties, he was soon to become undervalued. By the fifties his plays were seen not only as old-fashioned but outright dangerous, since he had been a Communist. The sixties, radical though they were, brought no renewed interest. In 1966, while I was in graduate school, when one of my professors published some interviews with Odets in Harper's, my fellow students and I all smiled and wondered why anybody would bother to interview an old Commie writer like Odets. Now, he was no longer radical enough. Not only his politics but ...
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