82
P AR TISA N REVIEW
looks as though fuel will be very short this winter. People's tempers get
more and more ragged, and shopping is a misery. The shopkeepers treat
you like dirt, especially
if
you want something that happens to be in
short supply at the moment. The latest shortages are combs and teats
for babies' feeding bottles. Teats have been actually unprocurable in
some areas, and what do exist are made of reconditioned rubber. At the
same time contraceptives are plentiful and made of good rubber. Whisky
is
rarer than ever, but there are more cars on the roads, so the pr.trol
situation must have let up a little. The Horne Guard has been stood
down and firewatching greatly reduced. More U.S. soldiers have looked
me up, using PR as an introduction. I am always most happy to meet
any reader of PR. I can generally be got at the
Tribune,
but failing
that my home number is CAN 3751.
GEORGE ORWELL
CONTRIBUTORS
IsAAC RosENFELD, who majored in philosophy at the University of Chicago, is
now living in New York City. His first novel,
Passage from Home,
will be
published this year.
LIONEL TRILLING, who teaches English at Columbia University, is working on
a.
novel.
OsCAR WILLIAMS is the author of several volumes of verse and the editor of
New
Poems,
a yearly anthology.
WYLIE SYPHER, of the English department at Simmons College, has contributed
critical articles and reviews to PARTISAN REviEW.
]AMES BuRNHAM is the author of
The Managerial Revolution
and
The Machia–
vellians.
BYRON VAZAKAs' poems have appeared frequently in PARTISAN REVIEW. He lives
in Reading, Pa.
MARGUERITE YouNG's latest volume of verse is
Moderate Fable.
MARY McCARTHY, the author of
The Company She Keeps,
is now at work on a
new novel.
HANNAH ARENDT's "Frank Kafka: A Revaluation" appeared in the last issue of
PARTISAN REviEw. She was a student of philosophy and political history in
pre-Hitler Germany and now lives in New York City.
RAMON J. SENDER is a well-known Spanish novelist. His last work to be trans–
lated into English was
Chronicle of Dawn.
]AMES GRossMAN is a lawyer by profession who lives in New York City.
ARTHUR MizENER, who teaches as Wells College, has published literary criticism
in many periodicals.
RANDALL JARRELL, author of
Blood for a Stranger,
is noW' in the Air Force of the
U.S. Army.
NEWTON ARVIN is known for his studies of Hawthorne and Whitman. He is pro–
fessor of English at Smith College.
H. R. HAYs' latest novel is
Lie Down in Darkness.
JosEPH HANNELE GoLDSMITH was born in Brooklyn and educated at the Sorbonne.
Since 1941 he has been working on a metropolitan newspaper.
GERTRUDE BuCKMAN is a young writer at present working for a literary agency
in New York City.
