Talk:Kay Boyle

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Highly POV

Where is the documentation that Roy Cohn had her husband fired? She was more of a militant than an "activist."

I suggest a good read of Joan Mellen's great book, "Kay Boyle, Author of Herself." I have a copy and I heartily recommend it. I met Boyle a few times, and she is spot on.68.111.71.197 (talk) 09:44, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Boyle's literary critics

Some literary criticism - evaluation of her work as a writer - would be welcome.

Her contemporary, Edmund Wilson, wrote extensively on the writers of his era, and made these observation on Boyle’s writing style:

“In [Boyle] one recognizes a feminized Hemingway” ^[1] and noted “…her Hemingway heritage”. ^[2]

He opens his piece entitled Kay Boyle and The Saturday Evening Post with this:

“I picked up Kay Boyle’s Avalanche in the hope of finding a novel worth reading, and have been somewhat taken aback to get nothing but a piece of pure rubbish.” ^[3]

This harshness is typical of Wilson, but the article is amusing and insightful. Any other contributions on this matter?36hourblock (talk) 18:23, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wilson, Edmund. 1944. Kay Boyle and The Saturday Evening Post in Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected Reviews Lewis M. Dabney, ed. (New York: Library of America, 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-014-8

References

^ Wilson, 1944, 576
^ Wilson, 1944, 577
^ Wilson, 1944, 575

[1] Wilson, 1944, 576

[2] Wilson, 1944, 577

[3] Wilson, 1944, 575

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