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Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retr

William Dean Howells

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. . .nt of the orgy, which went but slowly for an orgy, we were joined by some belated Bohemians whom the others made a great clamor over; I was given to understand they were just recovered from a fearful debauch; their locks were still damp from the wet towels used to restore them, and their eyes were very frenzied. I was presented to these types, who neither said nor did anything worthy of their awful appearance, but dropped into seats at the table, and ate of the supper with an appetite that seemed poor. I stayed hoping vainly for worse things till eleven o'clock, and then I rose and took my leave of a literary condition that had distinctly disappointed me. I do not say that it may not have been wickeder and wittier than I found it; I only report what I saw and heard in Bohemia on my first visit to New York, and I know that my acquaintance with it was not exhaustive. When I came the next year the Saturday Press was no more, and the editor and his contributors had no longer . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Wonderful if you want a contemporary take by a gifted editor of the literary scene in New England (and the East) in the late 19th century. A lot of names you're unlikely to find elsewhere. A lot of praise for writers little thought of today. A bunch of oversights (by our standards) as well. There's

Howells is not without merit, but he always produces about 35% too much unnecessary text, and this weakens his books in a major way.

has chapters titled Literary Boston as I Knew It, Cambridge Neighbors, and First Impressions of Literary New York