"One of the pleasures of "Elizabeth Bishop and 'The New Yorker'," a new collection of her correspondence with that magazine's poetry editors, is snooping around in the excellent footnotes and front matter for the wicked comments she made behind the magazine's back. She deplored its '"How nice to be nice!" atmosphere, ' its sense of 'false refinement," and declared that reading the magazine was 'getting to be like reading a quilt--eating a quilt, I mean--full of starchy fillers and "enough water to properly prepare" etc.' . . . there are those--and, full disclosure, I am among them--for whom this kind of shop talk from an adored poet and her serious editors is uncut catnip. This book presents a master class in all the effortlessly cordial ways The New Yorker had (and has) to say no to things it doesn't want . . . At the same time these letters show how clearly valued a contributor Bishop was and how the magazine's offices lighted up whenever one of her poems came in over the transom. The letters are full of high spirits too." --Dwight Garner, "The New York Times"
"["Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker"] offers a glimpse into Bishop's life (she lived in Brazil for much of this period), writing process and relationship with her editors, as well as a look into the internal workings of that fabled publication in which so many of her poems were published ... As with the best correspondence, it is like eavesdropping on a lively conversation already in progress." --"The Globe and Mail"
""Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker" collects nearly forty years of letters between Bishop and the magazine, largely a correspondence with two of Bishop's formidable editors, Katherine White and Howard Moss. It was more than a partnership. In letters to Moss and White over the years, her valedictions warmed from 'Sincerely' to 'Affectionately' to 'Love' ... This collection is most interesting as a record of how Bishop and her editors mulled over questions of style, clarity, and accur
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