Volume 22, Number 11 · June 26, 1975
Typing It Up
By Roger Sale
A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley
Random House, 385 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Pages from a Cold Island
by Frederick Exley
Random House, 274 pp., $7.95
Early in A Fan's Notes, the first of Frederick Exley's books about himself, he says that while others might inherit from their fathers a head for figures or a gold watch, he 'acquired this need to have my name whispered in reverential tones.' A curse indeed, as we shall see. A little later, he describes coming to New York:
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