Supposedly the archives of all these programs are hosted here, but I have never once gotten the links to work. Readers included Anais Nin, who also wrote a brief note about the novel that accompanied the 1979 paperback reissue (which I could have bought at a tower-like bookstore in downtown Milwaukee for under ten bucks once. In the late 1970s, the novel was partially saved from obscurity by litterateur Charles Ruas, who produced a series of dramatic readings from it for a radio station named WBAI. This is not the first time Miss MacIntosh has made good radio. All very homespun, in a way that feels appropriate to the novel somehow. In some episodes you hear dogs barking or interruptions from her housemates. She often falls into a near-monotone or stumbles over the long sentences. It’s just this lady named Coral Russell reading the whole novel and then, in the later episodes, sort of recapping the various chapters. There’s more to say about Miss MacIntosh, My Darling - a novel about how there is always more to say (especially when you start to unsay all the things you’ve said), a revival of Renaissance copia (Marguerite Young did some of her earliest critical writing on John Lyly, one of the great lovers-of-ornateness-for-its-own-sake in the English language) - than I was able to fit into my piece.
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