Dwight Macdonald

Macdonald, Dwight. (1906-1982). Writer for the New Yorker Magazine and pugnacious political radical. TWO-PAGE TYPED LETTER SIGNED FROM DWIGHT MACDONALD TO AMERICAN CALLIGRAPHER PAUL STANDARD. New York: January 24, 1966.

- Small octavo. Typed letter filling both sides of a sheet of New Yorker letterhead, 7-1/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide, with the New Yorker address & logo printed at the top. There are several typed corrections & 1 ink correction to the letter. Signed in black ink "Dwight Macdonald". Folded once for mailing. Together with a cutting from the New York Literary Supplement & with the New Yorker mailing envelope. Near fine. <p>Macdonald writes to calligrapher Paul Standard returning a book to him and sending him another. "I'm (finally) returning to you under separate cover the little book Tytler on translation which I've been reading with much interest & sympathy. With it I add, as a fine for overdue book so to speak, a copy of one of Bill Arrowsmith's translations of Aristophanes...that may interest you." He remarks that he is about to go to Arrowsmith's university [the University of Texas] where leading classical translator Arrowsmith heads a new translation center and has "raised considerable $$$ from foundations to improve level of the art by simple process of paying more for good translations than the current 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 cents a word". Macdonald is going to Texas "to teach a course in history and criticism of the movies." The newspaper cutting, headed "Art of Translation", is a letter praising the work of recently deceased translator J. F. Huntington.<p>Writer, editor, social critic and political radical Dwight Macdonald edited Partisan Review from 1937 to 1943 and his own journal Politics from 1944 through 1949. At the same time he was contributing to the New Yorker as a staff writer and to Esquire as a film critic. He was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and a supporter of the student radicals of the sixties.

[SW: LITERATURE; AUTHOR; EDITOR; SOCIAL CRITIC; RADICAL; DWIGHT MACDONALD; TYPED LETTER SIGNED; TLS; T.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; TRANSLATION; CALLIGRAPHER; PAUL STANDARD.]

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Anderson, Sherwood (Review Copy of Dwight MacDonald): TAR A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD (Review Copy of First edition) New York Boni and Liveright 1926
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Reviewed by Dwight Macdonald for the Yale Daily News in January of 1927, according to MacDonald's note on back blank endpaper. Copy of his reveiw is pasted onto this same endpaper. MacDonald's bookplate is affixed to front blank paste-down. MacDonald has written in black pen at top of the last endpaper, "My first review copy." Unable to determine if this was the first reveiw he wrote at Yale, or the first copy of a book he ever received for reviewing it. MacDonald, who became well known later as an editor for Henry Luce, who he met at Yale, and later still as a Marxist social critic, was a precocious young man. He was attending Philips Exeter Academy by age 14, and his bookplate is dated 1921 when he would have been 15. He graduated from Yale in 1928. MacDonald worked for Luce at both Time and at Fortune Magazine. He parted with Luce in 1936 over an editorial dispute and went to work at the Partisan Review. The review pasted at back shows that MacDonald generally liked this book by Sherwood Anderson, although he chided Anderson for "taking it easy" with the writing of this. A few annotations and highlights in text in same black pen as note on back endpaper. In one fairly lengthy annotation MacDonald compares a passage to one in Proust's "Swan's Way." Book is square and tight and otherwise clean internally, with only a bit of wear to the cloth. Spine is sunned. Gilt embellished decoration on cover still bright. Cloth now protected in clear plastic. Great association copy. Review copy owned by one of great critics of the early 20th century of a book by one of the great innovators in American literature in the early 20th century. First Edition Lacking Dust Jacket Brown Decor. Cloth Octavo, 346pp

[SW: First Edition, Sherwood Anderson, Dwight MacDonald, Yale Daily News, Partisan Review, Henry Luce, Time Magazine]

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TRILLING, DIANA. The Beginning Of The Journey: The Marriage Of Diana And Lionel Trilling. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York: 1993. ISBN: 0151116857

442 pages. An uncommonly personal account of the upbringings, education, and marriage of two remarkable individuals, it is also a probing portrait of life among the group now so widely referred to as "the New York intellectuals" - Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, William Phillips, Phillip Rahv, Edmund Wilson, James Agee, Sidney Hook, Randall Jarrell, Allen Ginsberg. A blend of cultural criticism and private reminiscence. Includes 8 pages of black and white photos, and also an index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition.

[SW: (Key Words: Literary Biography, Lionel Trilling, Diana Trilling, Partisan Review, New York Literati, Columbia University, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, William Phillips, Phillip Rahv, Edmund Wilson, James Agee, Sidney Hook, Randall Jarrell, Allen Ginsberg).]

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Wreszin, Michael B & W Photographs.. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition the Life and Politics of Dwight MacDonald.. Basic Books 1994 NY,
Fine/Fine (NEW) DJ in Brodart protective mylar 1st edition hb..

[SW: MACDONALD Dwight Politics #8679 Wreszin Michael Intellectuals,]

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