PARTISAN REVIEW No. 9
NEW CONTRIBUTORS: ILYA EHRENBOURG, famous Soviet
novelist and essayist, has recently become well known to American readers
through the publication here of his novel,
Out of Chaos,
and his contribu·
tions to the
New Masses.
...
ALBERT RAFFI, a twenty-three year old
Bostonian, is a member of the Artists and Writers Union of that city....
GRACE LUMPKIN's second novel,
A Siqn
for
Cain,
will be published on
October· 14th by Lee Furman, Inc.
To
Make
my
Bread,
her first
book
published in 1932, won the Maxim Gorky Prize for the best proletarian
novel of that year.... An editorial note precedes the speeches of joHN
STRACHEY, ANDRE GmE and ANDRE MALRAUX at the Writers Congress
in Paris this summer.... NELLIE CooMBS, who lives in North Dart·
mouth, Mass., writes us that her people "have been in this country for a
couple of hundred years, the original stock coming from England.
My
ancestors have been farmers, machinists, sailors and ship's carpenters. I
could not afford to go to college, so I got a job in a· screw factory, in·
specting and packing screws." For the last two years she has been working
in the preparing department of the same mill. She is twenty-seven yean
old. Her story in this issue is her first published work.... BETSEY FOOTB
was recently arrested in the South End of Boston on a frame-up charge
of vagrancy ; at present she is the press agent for the New England Labor
News Bureau and one of Boston's army of unemployed. She is twenty-one
years old, and except for contributions to a college paper she has not pub–
lished before.
BEGINNING WITH the next issue PARTISAN REVIEW will carry
a permanent list of contributing edit9rs, composed of its leading con·
tributors and editorial representatives throughout the country. The in·
complete list now at hand contains the names of Samuel Putnam, Meridel
LeSueur,
].
S. Balch, Nelson Algren and Richard Wright.•.. The next
issue will also carry an announcement of a workers' sketch contest which,
in all probability, will be publicized under the general title,
A II
in a
Day's
Work.
