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...Odds Prevail. Now all this is changed; Naked Lunch will now be available at the friendly neighborhood bookstore, right there beside Youngblood Haivke and The New English Bible. The terrible Mary McCarthy has spoken of Burroughs with respect, and the Saturday Review's John Ciardi has praised his "profoundly meaningful" search for "values." British Writer Kenneth Allsop called him "Rimbaud in a raincoat." The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of the YADS | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First-Grade for First Grade | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Poet John Ciardi will host a visit to three San Francisco boites -the hungry i, the Roaring Twenties, The Drinking Gourd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aug. 17, 1962 | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Thurs., June 14 Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Descendants of the earliest American Negro slaves, now living on the Georgia Sea Islands, are studied. John Ciardi is host, guest is Folk Musicologist Alan Lomax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 15, 1962 | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Painter Thomas Hart Benton talks to Host John Ciardi about his Missouri boyhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

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