10.15.2003
Your letters
[Posted 2:59 PM by James Panero]
While The New Criterion may no longer swiftly send out parcels to reviewers (see below), critical reader-mail still finds its way to us. Today in the mailbag, three identical postcards arrived from a certain “Frank O’Pinion.” Mr. O’Pinion writes in:
TO BROOKE ALLEN:
One reason why the Prose of Beryl Markham in West With the Night seems artificial and unconvincing is because she didn’t write it. Her Husband did.
TO STEPHEN SCHWARTZ:
Carlo Fresca was murdered by a MAFIA gunman, CARMINE GALANTE, in the Pay of Genneroso Pope, an Italian-American Publisher. The Communits had nothing to do with it.
TO JOHN SIMON:
Hilter was never an officer. The highest rank that he held was corporal.
Mr. O’Pinion gave no return address. Alas, the selfless heroism of the vigilante fact-checker goes thankless and unrewarded.