Esquire: The Magazine for Men December 1959
195922663Chicago: Esquire Inc. Very Good. 1959. Vol. LII No. 6; whole no. 313. Magazine. NOISBN . rubbing to covers small tear in right edge of front cover another small tear and just a bit of paper loss at bottom of rear cover adjacent to spine. B&W/color photographs ads etc. An exceptionally rich issue of this generally exceptional magazine. For starters there are six pieces of fiction in English "Mink Snopes" by William Faulkner; "End of a Relationship" by Alberto Moravia; "I Don't Need You Any More" by Arthur Miller; "Wake Before Bomb" by Wright Morris; "The Man Who Looked Like Jesus" by Howard Fast; "Actress with Red Garters" by Allan Seager and another in translation: "A Revenge" by Thomas Mann written when he was 24. Also notable: "Tribute to a Designer" about William Addison Dwiggins by Alfred A. Knopf; "Un Petite Drame" a hitherto unpublished one-act play by George Bernard Shaw called here "the first written" by him dating to 1884; pictorial essays "The Comden-Green Film Festival" and "The Dark World of John Barrymore" the latter being reproductions of a number of drawings and sketches by the actor; "Footnotes on F. Scott Fitzgerald" by his secretary Frances Kroll Ring; an essay by Irwin Shaw "The Passing of the Four Seasons"; an article about Julia Moore "The World's Worst Poet"; a short poem by Emperor Hirohito of Japan; an essay "The Flowering Dream; notes on writing" by Carson McCullers; and book reviews by Dorothy Parker who praises James Purdy and his latest book "Malcolm." And there's more 382 pages in all weighing in at just over 2-1/2 pounds. . Esquire, Inc. unknown books
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