SLPAD - unnumbered query on writers

[Michael Bailey]

I was thinking of searching on Candida Donadio’s client list, but the
slate.com link you attached was even better.

Thank you!



On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 6:24 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Young TRP was very hip literarily it is safe to say, I think. Among other
> ways, thru his legendary (even then!)
> agent, fiery, brilliant, taste-maker and lit-winds-detector Candida
> Donadio. Candida was famous for her 'avant-garde"
> writers, her placing of her writers' works in leading edge periodicals
> like New World Writing and more.
>
> There is circumstantial evidence that TRP read Catch-22 in
> manuscript....which he could get from Candida.....
>
> A confirmed sighting of TRP---from Jerome Charyn's girlfriend
> directly---although later in time than we are mostly talking shows his
> constant desire to know what was happening. She and Jerome were at a New
> American Writing lunch--where girlfriend worked-- with Faith [Sale, an
> editor, [Tom's for awhile] wife of Tom's Cornell buddy Kirkpatrick Sale and
> a guy only called Tom.....
>
>
> https://slate.com/culture/2008/08/was-new-american-review-the-best-literary-magazine-ever.html
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 2:49 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Back to the intro
>>
>> “I wasn’t the only one writing then who felt some need to stretch, to step
>> out.”
>>
>> I’m dabbling around trying to formulate a query to search on, which would
>> pick up the ones he would likely mean.
>>
>> He covered it in general terms already, mentioning Kerouac and Mailer & a
>> couple others as inspirations.
>>
>> But would there be like a clade of those who were, like him, in the late
>> ‘50s-early ‘60s relative younguns, feeling that inspiration, & wanting to
>> stretch their horizons?
>>
>> Philip Roth and John Barth I think were mostly writing about what they
>> knew
>> at that point, & quite a bit afterwards.
>>
>> As Curly sez, “I’m tryin’ ta think, but nothing happens!”
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>