Letters & Essays of the Day
A Radio Interview
By Gertrude Stein & William Lundell
“Nouns are pretty dead and adjectives which are related to nouns which are practically dead are even more dead.”
Letters & Essays: 1980s
On Inspiration
By Truman Capote, Joyce Cary, John Cheever, James Dickey, Joan Didion, E. L. Doctorow, J. P. Donleavy, Lawrence Durrell, Leon Edel & William Faulkner
What follows are the authors’ discussions on the first stirrings, the germination of a poem, or a work of fiction. Any number of headings would be appropriate: Beginnings, The Starting Point, etc. Inspiration would be as good as any.