I Gave Up Writing Blurbs Because You

The Black Situation Has Changed. They Finally Realized They're Americans.

The Novel Doesn't Come Into Existence Until Certain Methods Of Reproducing Fiction Come Along.

Gertrude Stein Really Thought Of Hemingway As Frail. He Almost Married Stein.

Hemingway Seems To Be In A Funny Position. People Nowadays Can't Identify With Him Closely As A Member Of Their Own Generation, And He Isn't Yet Historical.

To Be An American (unlike Being English Or French Or Whatever) Is Precisely To Imagine A Destiny Rather Than To Inherit One; Since We Have Always Been, Insofar As We Are Americans At All, Inhabitants Of Myth Rather Than History.