The Literary Workshop, Vol. I no. 2, 1934
New York: The Writers Laboratory Guild, 1934. Wraps. 10 x 7 inches, softcover, very good. 64 pp. An unusual literary magazine: the first half contains original poetry, stories and features; the second half, "The Workshop" has published authors critique the stories, poems and features that appeared in the previous issue. In this case, the writers include Williams, Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, Martha Foley and some lesser lights. Williams was asked to look at 5 poems and his "Sequence and Change" is a response to them as well as to a poem by Elizabeth Gallagher that he liked much more than the five. Anderson's "Word of Advice," a pithy one paragraph reply: "Dear Mr. editor: I do not know what to say to the ambitious student writer. Too many of them, I have found, are more anxious to be writers than to write. Too often, you will find that the student thinks of writing as some sort of clever trick. It isn't that. If it is anything, it is a way of life. I think that if I were a student, I would not spend much time thinking of how to write, but would spend my time instead thinking of people, trying to enter into their lives. You do not really get anything out of life unless you continually give, and writing is nothing more than giving yourself to others, a method of channeling your feelings. We have too many smart, wise writers now. Sincere regards, Sherwood Anderson." Very good. Item #H36029
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