TRTR Very Misc....50s, Partisan Review crowd

[Mark Kohut]

So, I pick up this nicely-made, solidly-done book which is John Gruen's
memoirs...i recognize his name from NYTimes pieces...it is subtiltled
a critic's memoirs and in it I learn when he was a bookseller at the old Brentano's
in NYC early in 50s of The Recognitions, in one of his earliest jobs after college, he recognized one Oscar Williams
browsing, famous anthologist and poet, known mostly then for his A Little Treasury
of American Poetry which our author had had at Iowa Writer's School very recently,
becasue a picture of Oscar's round face was on the book and, introduced himself and soon he and
his wife entered the highly prestigious, tightly-knit, competitive and back-biting world of the so-called
"little magazines".....
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