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Editor Haydn has worked with such authors as Jerome (The Enemy Camp) Weidman and Ayn (The Fountainhead) Rand, discovered or brought along such young novelists as William (Lie Down in Darkness) Styron and H. L. (Paris Underground) Humes. Says another of his authors, Truman Capote: "He is one of these...
I note that the words "bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review...
Pernods & Bludgeons. Review's four American founders spun together accidentally in the Paris literary whirl late in 1952. They were Plimpton (Harvard '48), Novelist Harold Humes (M.I.T. '48), Peter Matthiessen (Yale '50) and John P.C. Train (Harvard '50), son of the late lawyer-writer Arthur...
Stone is a key witness in the imaginary affaire Dujardin, which has for post-World War II France all the moral and political catnip of a Dreyfus case. Dujardin, a member of the French underground, is in jail, has been marked for death as one of the guilty who directed...
Delusion of Exile. It is a tribute to the quality of Bastide's writing, which comes through finely in translation, that from two such wisps he is able to evoke the living heart of Paris. His is not the grand or the obvious Paris of the boulevards or of...