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August 29, 1969 |
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Letter to Gerald Kadish from John and Priscilla. |
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John: Right now my long night of unpublishment is ending: I am virtually certain of writing a weekly column in the Cambridge Phoenix, a weekly starting in Boston this fall. It will try hard to be a local Village Voice. Without a village that may be hard, but what the hell. Also, I seem to have made a hit with the Managing Editor of the National Catholic Reporter. I wrote a piece bitching about the fact that I couldn't get my Catholic-porno novel, Papa Peter's Seat, published. The piece is a lot of nasty comments on Catholic tolerance for blasphemy, but it may serve its primary purpose, to get me in print one way or another. The editor to whom I talked on the phone is going to try to get me a publisher for the novel, which is complete. So in the future you may refer to me as "my friend, the columnist". Any subjects you want ranted about?
Priscilla: John's year of teaching at Emmanuel was a dismal failure. Four sections of freshman comp that didn't seem to have one intelligent student per class, and scarcely an amiable one. Although there were some reasonably interesting younger faculty, the department was run by nuns who make St. Fidgeta seem like a whitewashing of the possibilities of Catholic education. |
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| Date: |
December, 1969. |
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Hand-written dedication to Al Myers's mother in The Face in the Frost. |
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"To the Duchess of Desmond, Der Herr, the Timothy, the Bébé, and other any Myerses I may have forgotten. Blessing on you all and happy, carefree New Year. John." |
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1969_12-ded-jb-myers-ff.pdf |
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