Word: styron
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...Styron says he can understand why his black critics had "this emotional response, and I can accommodate myself to it." But he cannot let it bother him any more. "Some of the points are well taken," he says of Ten Black Writers, "but ninety per cent of it is shallow. I can excuse them for their passion, but not for the preposterous things they said...
...voice is soft--there's no southern drawl, but there is a hint of Virginia that makes Styron easy to listen to: "Had I had any basic intellectual respects for what was in that book, I would have been seized by agues and palsies and taken a three or four-year trip to Europe...
...Styron does not discuss the work as literature: "I don't think it's right to ask an author to defend his work on literary grounds, and I didn't come here to do that...
...point of general faithfulness in portraying a man and his times, Styron says, "I have no qualms...
...qualms, Styron's lack of them is disturbing. But if Styron's quiet reason conquers you--I must say it conquered me--there is a reassuring solidity even in that well-dressed figure that stands between the public and the muse...