“Isn’t this rather small for what you have in mind?” Mel said.
“No, no,” I said, “it’s just fine. Everything is just fine!”
[1]. Conroy’s works consist of two novels, The Disinherited and A World to Win, several children’s books, and They Seek the City, a history of Negro migration written in collaboration with Arna Bontemps with the assistance of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
[2]. An informative pamphlet on literary agents can be obtained from the Society of Authors Representatives, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York 36.
Transcriber’s Note:
- The errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here.
- Where hyphenation occurs on a line break, the decision to retain or remove is based on occurrences elsewhere in the text.
- Errors in punctuation and quotes have been silently restored.
- The footnotes were moved to the end of the e-text.
- The numbers below reference the page and line in the original book.
| reference | correction | original text |
|---|---|---|
| [7.4] | occupied | occuped by a painter |
| [34.32] | bookstore | moving her Gold Coast book store |
| [37.31] | sometimes | sometimes tight and drawn, some times |
| [41.20] | impression | and the only inpression you can |
| [44.10] | bestseller | who wrote a best-seller thirty |
| [65.19] | similar | who hold similiar views on |
| [66.19] | became | if one of the “faithful” become |
| [68.2] | conflict | my inner conflct remained |
| [88.29] | bestsellers | under the pop numbers and best-sellers |
| [88.31] | Malcolm | Malcom Cowley, the distinguished critic |
| [95.26] | Terkel | Turkel’s famous “Studs’ Place” |
| [100.13] | stick-up | ‘This is a stickup!’ |
| [106.13] | and | ad civic responsibility |
| [106.17] | café | at a small cafe |
| [111.39] | interrupted | was often interupted |
| [121.6] | sing-song | low, almost singsong voices |
| [131.2] | We | we lived at 1639 South |
| [150.9] | interrupted | interupted whatever I was |
| [101.26] | hardcover | copies of the hard-cover book |
| [174.19] | say was | really meant to say that |
| [175.1] | old-time | old time actor in it |
| [186.4] | success | as the sucess of the book |