In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
“Delmore Schwartz catapults past the fickleness of mere reputation(that posture and position that Lionel Trilling defined as characterizing a ‘figure’) into something close to legend.” (Cynthia Ozick)“Nostalgic odes to the city are everywhere, but the best thing ever written on the subject isIn Dreams Begin Responsibilities.” (The Village Voice)“The greatest man I ever met...[His] titles were more than enough to raise the muse of fire on my neck.” (Lou Reed)“['In Dreams'] is as good as a story can be, I’d say after reading it again for the fifth or sixth time, comparable with Kafka, Babel, or Through the Looking Glass.” (Dwight MacDonald)