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No Welty U

Eudora Welty’s family declines to grant permission for a Mississippi women’s university to take her name. (Thanks, Eric.)

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After the Ford-Rhys affair: a correspondence

Today Granta posts my exchange with Alexander Chee about Jean Rhys’ and Ford Maddox Ford’s affair and the vengeful novels they wrote afterward. The level of acrimony packed into Quartet and When the Wicked Man is comparable to that of the Philip Roth-Claire Bloom book-off, if the Bloom character in I Married a Communist had not only been cast as . . .

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