Volume 10, Number 6 · March 28, 1968
Realism in the American Novel
By Aileen Ward
In response to Catch-31
(January 18, 1968)
To the Editors:
How many budding novelists, analyzing the first paragraph of John O'Hara's The Instrument in their fiction-writing courses, will recognize what your reviewer didn't [NYR, Jan. 18], that you can't make water boil over? Coffee yes, water no.
Aileen Ward
Cambridge, Massachusetts
