Getting into the Grove at the Paris Review

“Had we just gone ahead and published Burroughs it would have been a mess because we already had so many lawsuits.” http://t.co/DWHrWYADpG
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) June 28, 2014

MT "Alfred Kazin was another witness. Picked him up from the New School, where I’d taken a course with him." http://t.co/u8aI4D1xtj
— Alex Kudera (@kudera) June 29, 2014

Miller did not have the kind of reputation that Lawrence did. He was thought of as a sort of bum, an early Kerouac. http://t.co/u8aI4D1xtj
— Alex Kudera (@kudera) June 29, 2014

"I got to hate Quakers. Detest them. They were anti-Semitic at Swarthmore, and there were no blacks, not one." http://t.co/u8aI4D1xtj
— Alex Kudera (@kudera) June 29, 2014

"My father somehow made friends with them, but I couldn’t. To them, I was a Jew. My Irish Catholic half didn’t count. . .[T]hey were snobs."
— Alex Kudera (@kudera) June 29, 2014