The Hemingway Review, September 22nd, 1999
AFTER SEVERAL FALSE starts on this review, I turned to Edmund Wilson's "The Literary Worker's Polonius," a light-hearted but nonetheless practical guide to the duties of editors, writers, reviewers, and even the public. Wilson's 1935 guide is still current in most ways and descriptive of publishing in the United States. He even reminded me of the one letter I had written as a graduate student to Ernest Hemingway.
Wilson put people who write to authors into these categories: "Insane people and cranks," the lonely and "persons in provincial isolation" "Young people who want the author to read...
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