The Luck of Friendship

✍ Scribed by Laughlin, James

• Book ID: 109937608
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 281 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393246209

✦ Synopsis

The chronicle of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin's unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship.

In December 1942, two guests at a Lincoln Kirstein mixer bonded over their shared love of Hart Crane's poetry. One of them was James Laughlin, the founder of a small publishing company called New Directions, which he had begun only seven years earlier as a sophomore at Harvard. The other was a young playwright named Thomas Lanier Williams, or "Tennessee," as he had just started to call himself. A little more than a week after that first encounter, Tennessee sent a letter to Jay—as he always addressed Laughlin in writing— expressing a desire to get together for an informal discussion of some of Tennessee's poetry. "I promise you it would be extremely simple," he wrote, "and we would inevitably part on good terms even if you advised me to devote myself exclusively to the theatre for the rest of my life."

So began a deep friendship that would...
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