Follow-the-Leader
Colm Tóibín: Bishop v. Lowell, 14 May 2009
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 875 pp., £40, November 2008,978 0 571 24308 2 Show More
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 875 pp., £40, November 2008,
“... school of female writing which is really boasting about how ‘nice’ we were. V. Woolf, K.A.P. [Katherine Anne Porter], Bowen, R. West etc – they are all full of it. They have to make quite sure that the reader is not going to misplace them socially, first – and that nervousness interferes constantly with what they think they’d like to say. The ... ”