""Let Us Hear About Your Progress" collects correspondence between Lucia Berlin, Edward Dorn, and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn from the years between 1976 and 1989. The letters capture the significance of their friendship and record Berlin's progress as a writer whose beautiful, funny, and offbeat voice inimitably captured the difficult territory that drew her. They also demonstrate how, in contrast to the "chopped up" experiences Berlin had with other publishers, Dorn and Dunbar Dorn used their newspapers and their connections to make spaces for Berlin's stories that preserved her vision. While detailing Berlin's emergence as a published writer of short stories, these letters offer a closer glimpse of Dorn as a professor and literary mentor while underscoring the significance of Dunbar Dorn's editorial work during these years."--Publishers's website.
Biography & AutobiographyPoetry
RELEASED2022
PUBLISHERCenter for the Humanities
LENGTH43
LANGUAGEEN
Let Us Hear about Your Progress : Letters Between Lucia Berlin, Edward Dorn, & Jennifer Dunbar Dorn
""Let Us Hear About Your Progress" collects correspondence between Lucia Berlin, Edward Dorn, and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn from the years between 1976 and 1989. The letters capture the significance of their friendship and record Berlin's progress as a writer whose beautiful, funny, and offbeat voice inimitably captured the difficult territory that drew her. They also demonstrate how, in contrast to the "chopped up" experiences Berlin had with other publishers, Dorn and Dunbar Dorn used their newspapers and their connections to make spaces for Berlin's stories that preserved her vision. While detailing Berlin's emergence as a published writer of short stories, these letters offer a closer glimpse of Dorn as a professor and literary mentor while underscoring the significance of Dunbar Dorn's editorial work during these years."--Publishers's website.