Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ships of Fools, Porter...
...McKenna (3) 4. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, Salinger 5. $100 Misunderstanding, Gover (5) 6. A Shade of Difference, Drury (4) 7. Genius, Dennis (7) 8. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara (8) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. Ship of Fools, Porter...
...Porter's "Kathy's Date" is slicker, moving nicely through seven scenes in six pages. Sometimes the dislogue is a bit too cute--two boys and a girl are a "sand-wich"--but the story is about wild college youth, and necessarily interesting. There's also some--a little...
Interestingly enough, Porter's "Kathy's Date," like his November "The Devil Will Spank" and "Grandfather," ends in a cemetery. Lest anyone suspect a graveyard school at South Street, Michael Hancher explains in a pompous and unnecessary editorial on "Advocate Policy" that there is no Advocate policy, that it prints anything that "achieves," and that the oversupply of cometeries and childhood recollections is purely accidental. "If the Advocate is not always a constant joy to read from cover to cover," he apologizes, "it is because writers and editors learn from mistakes." This issue should provide more than a modicum...
When Updike took his family to Europe this fall, he sailed tourist class. On the same ship, traveling first class, was Novelist Katherine Anne Porter. The two writers, Updike reports, did not meet. It seems long past time for this talented and valuable writer to look a venturesome novel and Katherine Anne Porter straight...