“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:

referencecorrectionoriginal text
[7.4] occupiedoccuped by a painter
[34.32]bookstoremoving her Gold Coast book store
[37.31]sometimessometimes tight and drawn, some times
[41.20]impressionand the only inpression you can
[44.10]bestsellerwho wrote a best-seller thirty
[65.19]similarwho hold similiar views on
[66.19]becameif one of the “faithful” become
[68.2] conflictmy inner conflct remained
[88.29]bestsellersunder the pop numbers and best-sellers
[88.31]MalcolmMalcom Cowley, the distinguished critic
[95.26]TerkelTurkel’s famous “Studs’ Place”
[100.13]stick-up‘This is a stickup!’
[106.13]andad civic responsibility
[106.17]caféat a small cafe
[111.39]interruptedwas often interupted
[121.6] sing-songlow, almost singsong voices
[131.2] Wewe lived at 1639 South
[150.9] interruptedinterupted whatever I was
[101.26]hardcovercopies of the hard-cover book
[174.19]say wasreally meant to say that
[175.1] old-timeold time actor in it
[186.4] successas the sucess of the book