Fun stories about Gathering JDS's uncollected fiction


Subject: Fun stories about Gathering JDS's uncollected fiction
From: Chris Kubica @Home (@Home)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 16:48:10 GMT


Here's a fun thread (I think):

Give us your most interesting story about how/when/where you were able to
get your hands on an uncollected JDS story. Here's mine:

I did my undergrad at the Univ. of MN in Minneapolis. They had quite a
periodical collection and I was able to find many of his stories (though
they didn't carry Cosmo, I don't think), but the New Yorker volume
containing "Hapworth" was always missing. Every single other volume (must
have been hundreds) Once a week, I'd check to see if it came back. I checked
for two years. It never came back.

Later, after I moved to Madison, WI, a girlfriend who was quite poor and a
student at Univ. of WI wanted to surprise me for my birthday so she copied
"Hapworth" from the WI library. Funny thing is, she copied almost every page
one line too small but she couldn't afford to copy it again so she hand
wrote the last line of each page somewhere at the bottom of each page in
green ink before she left the library! She said it took hours.

Another funny story, thanks for asking about it: When I was at the Univ. of
MN I used to sit in the dingy, dark stacks of the old Walter library and
write poetry, pretending that the desk I was in was the same one Robert Penn
Warren used to write part of All the King's Men (I heard once that he wrote
part of that novel in there).

Anyway,

Chris Kubica
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