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| | Elisabeth Harvor Reviews: Women Writers at Work : The Paris Review Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Mary McCarthy's page, on the other hand, has been typewritten, and of its five corrections, three have been typed in, with the consequence that we are given very little sense of how she works when she's alone and feeling spontaneous. |
 | | P.L. Travers' front door is pink, the same pink as the cover of Mary Poppins at Cherry Tree Lane, and in her hallway there's an antique rocking horse. |
 | | Mary McCarthy is brutal about Simone de Beauvoir, calling her "pathetic" and "odious"; Susan Sontag who was, early in her career, compared to McCarthy, says she has no desire to write like Mary McCarthy, "a writer who has never mattered to me." Mary McCarthy admires Tolstoy, but Rebecca West considers Tolstoy overrated. |
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