"Haunted by the war--which he continued to denounce bitterly in his letters--by teaching, and by what he called an 'inevitable mid-winter staleness,' Delmore found himself amid two crises in the spring of 1943. On March 2, he learned that a committee had been formed to decide on whether to offer him a five-year appointment as a faculty instructor, and they proposed to visit one of his classes. Delmore, 'in a frozen slump' at the time, objected strenuously to what he thought of as an unprecendented procedure, and decided to refuse their request--'on principle,' he told Berryman. At once defiant and unnerved, he worked out an elaborate argument by which he hoped to win Morrison's support before presenting his position to the committee: 'With enough benzedrine and coffee, in half an hour I can win them over.'"
~~ from James Atlas's Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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