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Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-cal. rifle...
...When I came back from Europe I got shoved into Claverly, and then I went to summer school, and I got out of that dump, got out of Claverly, and moved to Miss Mooney's boarding house, where I wrote my novel." He was twenty when Houghton Mifflin decided to publish...
Rounding out the poetry selections are four satires by Firman Houghton--those on Whitman and Houseman are especially funny--and an amusing "sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's the Way it Was" inversely so. "The Exorcists" redeems itself in places and "Hutch" looks as if it ought to sound nice...
Also, Phillip Ewald, promotion director of the New Yorker; Hardick Mosely, sales manager of Houghton Mifflin Co.; Jason Epstein, editor-in-chief of Anchor Books; and George Hunt, assistant managing editor of Life Magazine...
CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONCORD (243 pp.) -Henry David Thoreau, with notes and a commentary by Perry Miller-Houghton Mifflin...