Some More of Mr
p. 88 · Read in the full issue
Mr. Caldwell
Whether you think Erskine Caldwell is better in short hursts or not, that’s what you get in two new hooks of his short and shorter stories, published re cently.
One advantage in this aspect of his writing is that he moves about somewhat and there is an occasional change from the oversexed females and the corn cobs and cotton of the De pressed South. Such as ex cursions into Czechoslovakia and New England.
Either you like Caldwell’s stories or you don’t. But there are sufficient millions amongst the former category to make him a rich man. It was not always so, as he indicates in an auto biography which he has also produced recently and which sounds as though it could be far more entertaining than his usual accounts of tumbling in the Deep Southern corn.
(We Are The Living, Aus
tralian price, 18/9; WHEN YOU THINK OF ME, Australian price, 17/-. Published by Heine-\ mann).