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...Matthew Josephson (403 pp.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $6). Matthew Josephson roared through the '20s like the New Culture Special, stopping here for some Dada nihilism, there for surrealistic analysis and along the way meeting up with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Katherine Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing his typewriter out a window...
...exchange of letters that followed (they never again met), the Rev. John Hamilton Cowper Johnson of the order known as the Cowley Fathers helped her return to the sacraments of the Church of England, from which her conscience had kept her during her long adultery. Though she asked, and expected, that the letters be destroyed, here they all are, from 1950 to 1952 (another volume is to come), edited and with an introduction by her third cousin, Constance Babington-Smith. Numerous notable literary lights were scandalized when Letters to a Friend was published in England last October. Said Author Rebecca...
...decade later in the Depression, art-for-art's-sake writers like Malcolm Cowley became interested in politics, but the Communists had in the meantime preempted the positions of radical social protest. As the instances of Dreiser and Dos Passos show, they were not able to make any cultural use of their pre-eminence. The American intelligentsia turned left in the grim years between '28 and '32, but the Party was never able to adapt itself to it. It was not simply that Marxism produced no literary criticism worth printing, though that was true enough; but even the social criticism...
Aaron's book doesn't try to cover the whole troubled literary landscape of the time; it is a largely sympathetic study of a few whose temporary literary power exceeded their permanent influence: Malcolm Cowley, editor of the New Republic, Granville Hicks, editor of the New Masses, Mike Gold and Lincoln Steffens at the hard core, Edmund Wilson and Dos Passos hovering on the periphery. They formed what Gold envisioned in the late '20s as "Communism's literary shock troops," and their motives, Aaron observes, were "by no means reprehensible.'' But within these limitations...
...sheer boredom, he put in for flight training. From the start, flying became the focus of his life. And with his new enthusiasm he recovered the old drive that his mother had tried so hard to nurture. At Pensacola he met a pretty Alabama girl named Kathryn Cowley, and next day he wrote his mother that he had found the woman he was going to marry. A few weeks later he let Kathryn in on his plans. That little matter attended to. he turned back to aviation with single-minded zeal. Even as a newlywed, says Kathryn, Felt...