The Impossible Dream: Barbara Pym and Popular Underdogs
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Of all the charmingly-impossible writerly identities, I think I begrudge Barbara Pym’s the most. Her formal investiture came in 1977 when both Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil named her as the most underrated author “of the past seventy-five years”, and she has enjoyed an uninterrupted revival ever since. Our own
That reminds me, we must be due for Stoner to be rediscovered again as a “lost classic”, must be at least three years since a publisher last issued that press release
That reminds me, we must be due for Stoner to be rediscovered again as a “lost classic”, must be at least three years since a publisher last issued that press release