Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Poet critic Boswell of the Lost Generation of which he himself was a member savior of Faulkner's dwindling reputation editor of Kerouac's On the Road discoverer of John Cheever Cowley knew everybody and wrote about them with sharp insight. His biggest impact was from 1929 through 1944 when he was an assistant editor at The New Republic.