The American Boy

[shezan]

Daniel Mendelsohn, the classicist and translator of the Iliad, finally wrote about his correspondence with Mary Renault from the 1970s until her death, in a moving piece in the New Yorker I have only now come across. It is wonderful.

"...Like all writers, Renault spent much of her time alone; a good many of her friends, as I also learned later,

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[kizzikat]

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