Frank1818 - The Monday Morning Memo

“In a country like ours where there will necessarily be so much journalism, so much support of the popular, the successful, we are naturally unusually grateful when we find the genuine among the acceptable. And with [Ring] Lardner there is something more: he made literature out of baseball, the bridge game, and the wisecrack. Of course he was terribly funny, but even in his funniest stories there is a special desolation, a sense of national emptiness filled by stupidity and vanity…. He wrapped his dreadful events in comic language, as you would put an insecticide in a bright can.”

- Elizabeth Hardwick, Feb. 1, 1963

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