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...Your comments about Robert Penn Warren's book in tribute to Theodore Dreiser [Aug. 30] are too fatheaded not to be rejected. Dreiser is not forgotten. He is read by many people in many parts of the world, and for good reason: he wrote earnestly and without cleverness about the loneliness and failure of people who might be said to be ordinary, except for Dreiser's noticing of them...
...writing of Theodore Dreiser, who tends to take forever to tell his story and to get his effects, is necessary to read only if a reader starts to read it and refuses not to go on to the last word. It can happen, even today, even in America. And if it happens, it is because of the vitality of the writing. Durability follows vitality. When you dismiss Dreiser and belittle Warren, you are being laughable but not funny, which TIME has always tried to be for some preposterous reason Dreiser and Warren are writers. Your employees are not writers, they...
...Dreiser and his effect on and position in the history of American literature are hardly unnoticed. To the contrary, scholars, writers, students and friends of Dreiser from Russia, Sweden, Japan, Canada and the U.S. gathered in August at Indiana State University to celebrate the centennial of his birth...
...young people of today are reviving interest in his works. Despite Miss Duffy's review in TIME, this great pioneer in literature will have his "place in the sun." TEDI DREISER LANGDON Atlanta...
...Langdon is a grandniece of Dreiser...