![]() They compiled their own anthologies of this work-in-progress. Fans who had cherished First Love and Other Sorrows, the volume of short stories that appeared in 1958 when the author was twenty-eight years old, found themselves photocopying each new story. While readers waited for the masterpiece to appear, Brodkey published fragments in magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire and American Review. ![]() But Brodkey believed that publishing the unfinished novel “would interfere with working on it.” Party of Animals, some said, was already more than two thousand pages. Harold Brodkey, one of the most notorious of them all, garnered more celebrity each year, indeed each decade, that he missed deadlines for his long-awaited novel. These writers are, if you buy into such things, consummate artists. When- if-it finally appears, the book will change the way we read and write. And then there are those novelists whose esteem grows with each book they fail to publish.
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