BASKERVILLE
PUBLISHERS
7616 LBJ FREEWAY #220 DALLAS TX 75251-1008 (214) 934-3451
ONE PERSON AND ANOTHER
by
Richard Stem
A master novelist both makes and records literary history in this compendium of
interviews, portraits and critical pieces about writers and writing
ISBN: 1-880909-06-5/ $24.00
425pp.
"This is the finest: a man on
the road and engaged in a real
mission, as I believe a true
thinker must be. You can feel
an accomplished yet still
modest American hero in ONE
PERSON-a fellow who
actually likes other writers,
who pleads and defends and
forgives, while holding them to
the highest standards: far
beyond cronyism and into the
pure narrative keeps where
things matter. Richard Stern for
me is the literary man of the
hour-again."
-Barry Hannah
"ONE PERSON AND ANOTHER is an enchanting read. Nobody
can get more nuance into a paragraph with less look of effort. His
portraits are uncanny and his gift for getting people to talk,
especially reclusive people! Stern brings the aged Pound to life; or
the ailing Flannery O'Connor (even when she's absent, but writing
inimitable letters.) And those times with Saul Bellow! The very
man speaks, while we hover, invisible.
It
nearly amounts to the
invention of a new genre. Reporters interview such people, but
haven't the sense to know what to record. Stern is enough of a
novelist to know when not to invent. Impeccably written, with a
unity of tone and a total grasp of his subjects' work, ONE
PERSON AND ANOTHER will be of interest to anyone who cares
about 20th Century writing."
-Hugh Kenner
