The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987
Bak's commentary and notes are helpful, to the point, jargon-free, and superbly well-informed, and the letters themselves have been selected and judiciously edited to form an almost biographical narrative. […] If you don't reckon with Malcolm Cowley's works and days, you can't really understand how American literature ascended to its rightful place among the great literatures of the world, or how it was made. —Gerald Howard