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John A. Meixner

Book Reviews

Autumn 1963

The All-Purpose Quest

By John A. Meixner

V. by Thomas Pynchon. J. B. Lippincott Co., $5.95. The Messenger by Charles Wright. Farrar, Straus and Co., $3.95. Salt by Herbert Gold. The Dial Press, $4.95.   As I […]

Two Discussions of Ford Madox Ford

Spring 1960

The Saddest Story

By John A. Meixner

“I have always been mad about writing”—it is Ford Madox Ford, of course—and from an early time “made enthusiastic studies into how words should be handled and novels constructed.” Yet, […]