tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040484164765793907.post6071533874412438294..comments2023-11-25T04:57:42.356-05:00Comments on Prestwick Café: Tuesday TriviaKeith Bergstromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18156666108206916531noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040484164765793907.post-68516048994720341072009-10-14T10:45:20.331-04:002009-10-14T10:45:20.331-04:00Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up on the top of his r...Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up on the top of his refrigerator. (Wolfe was big and refrigerators were small back in 1929. Wolfe’s would write furiously and toss loose papers into a box by the side of his fridge. Max Perkins would receive those boxes and assemble books out of them. <br /><br />From Wikipedia: <br /><br />The greatest professional challenge Perkins ever faced was posed by Thomas Wolfe, whose talent was matched only by his lack of artistic self-discipline. Unlike most writers, who are often blocked, words poured out of Wolfe. A blessing in some ways, this was a curse too, as Wolfe was greatly attached to each sentence he wrote. After a tremendous struggle, Perkins induced Wolfe to cut 90,000 words from his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929). His next, Of Time and the River (1935), was the result of a two-year battle during which Wolfe kept writing more and more pages in the face of an ultimately victorious effort by Perkins to hold the line on size. Grateful to Perkins at first for discovering him and helping him realize his potential, Wolfe later came to resent the popular perception that he owed his success to his editor. Wolfe left Scribner's after numerous fights with Perkins. Despite this, Perkins served as Wolfe's literary executor after his early death in 1938.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10755980436868299515noreply@blogger.com