PARTISAN REVIEW FELLOWSHIPS
We are pleased to announce that, thanks to a grant made
available by the Rockefeller Foundation, four
Partisan Review
fellowships will be awarded to writers annually for a period
of three years.
The editors of
Partisan Review
will award and administer
the fellowships, which will be given in fiction, poetry, and
criticism. Applications will be accepted only upon invitation.
The selection of fellows will be determined on the basis of
literary merit and financial need. Each fellow will receive a
stipend of $2,700 if unmarried, or $4,000
if
married.
The appointments for 1956 will be announced
in
the
Summer issue.
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PRIZE STORIES 1956
The 0. Henry Awards. Edited
by
Paul Engle
ancl
Hansford Martin.
The 36th volume of the
0.
Henry
Prize Stories
contains 16 sparkling specimens of today'a
writing and writers: prizewinners John Cheever, James
Buechler and R. V. Cassill plus Saul Bellow, Robert Coates.
William Faulkner, Jean Stafford, John Steinbeck and others.
$3.9S
OVER THE RIVER CHARLIE
Lew X. Lansworth.
This extraordinary first novel
in
the great classical tradition of high comedy is a book
in
which "the lustiness of Rabelais sweeps the periods along;
the irony of Voltaire subtly punctuates the behavior
of as fascinating a group of characters as one is likely
to encounter in contemporary
fiction."-New York
Times Book Review
$3.9S·
THE PRESENCE OF GRACE
J.
F. Powers.
Nine short stories that probe the
priesthood, the parish house and the Church by the
brilliant, witty author of
Prince of Darkness.
Each of
the stories, perfectly formed, combine to create a series of
masterpieces which reveal a unique world.
$2.9S
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