In Search of Isabel Bolton

by Alice Lowe

In his 1946 New Yorker review of Do I Wake or Sleep, Edmund Wilson, one of the most prominent critics of his day, called Isabel Bolton’s voice “exquisitely perfect in accent.” Continue reading →

Penelope Fitzgerald: Outrunning “Time’s Winged Chariot”

by Evelyn Somers

I read The Blue Flower out of sheer curiosity: I wanted to know how a writer who has waited that long to publish could be that good. Continue reading →