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“... to write. Longer than Katherine Anne Porter found to write the whole of her resplendent work. Joan Givner’s book might be called light plane reading, except that it is heartlessly grave, gravid though fruitless, and would take the most receptive astronauts a moon-flight to try to sleep through, its dulled prose keeping them tossing and turning all ...”

“... women were never apart for more than a day or two. Caroline was the secretary and willing partner. Joan Givner has subtitled her biography The Hidden Life. Mazo, however, at the age of 78, published an autobiography of sorts which gave away something she had hidden so far, and which was her strangest bond with Caroline. This was the Play. Not only when ...”