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the situations they're in in all their ramifications more clearly. Despite underlined: NR again, I think the style is better in underlined: AWT (tho it does get a bit pretty in spots) and it's certainly a better constructed novel. You hurry toward the end too much in both books. anyhow, I'm anxious to see your next and expect it to be even first-rater.

    I like the underlined:  Anvil and am sending a subscription to  your business manager.  Although I don't feel that even a majority of the work contained there is first-class as short-story, I feel it all is as social material.  It all should be said again and again and we can hardly hope that every time a hurrying leader or harassed intellectual writes he's going to turn out one for the ages.  The time-sated bourgeois writer doesn't.   I think Balch is going places.  This is the first story of his I've read.  Aside from the story itself, I admire his knack for catching the rhythm of their dialogue.  "A ? at Headquarters" was A1, too.   I didn't go so much for Mike Gold's story.  It takes ingenuity to string out the idea Mussolini must have bad dreams to two pages and there are nice touches, but why do it?  Also I couldn't see Algren's story.   Nice prose but it doesn't go deep enough to do much good.  The other stories were valuable for what they said, not how it was said.
   I'm glad about the Book Union, too.  I have managed to get a couple of subscribers and occasionally I manage to get some students or faculty members at Colo. State to read Strachey or Rollins or Cantwell or you.  But it's tough going here, for they're only intellectually aware, even the most intelligent of them.   They don't feel or see.  In my spare time I run a book-column for the town paper and praise, with caution I must admit, left-wing publications, but don't get many rises.  The need for caution is illustrated, perhaps, by an experience with Denver's morning paper.  They did well by me on my reviews for several  weeks, giving me a streamer across the page on a couple of books I reviewed.  But several weeks ago I sends in on my own hook a review of [[underlined:  American Writer's ? ]]. saying this is a hell of an important book, please print this review.  Since then no reviews of mine have appeared.   It may be imagination, but looks a bit like cause and effect.