Writing the City 6

They say fiction requires conflict; well, when New York was a war of all against all, you had all the conflict you could handle any time you put your feet on the street.

The Great Late Henry James 8

If there was ever a rule that an American writer should do his boldest, most experimental work first and then retreat to safe ground, no one ever bothered to tell Henry James.

Family Ties: Childhood, Motherhood, and Fatherhood in Literature 11