In 1976, under the familiar disguise of classical scholarship, Guy Davenport smuggled in praise for same-sex love & androgyny into the pages of National Review. Davenport was a gangster, an absolute gangster.pic.twitter.com/c8wrgwIUPR
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In 1976, under the familiar disguise of classical scholarship, Guy Davenport smuggled in praise for same-sex love & androgyny into the pages of National Review. Davenport was a gangster, an absolute gangster.pic.twitter.com/c8wrgwIUPR
Jonathan Williams once wrote that if his neighbors in rural North Carolina ever read any considerable number of his poems his house would mysteriously burn down. I imagine Davenport counted on nobody at National Review actually reading any of his stories.
Davenport wrote for National Review out of friendship with Kenner, mainly. He also came to like the book review editor Frank Meyer.
It would be absurd now, but didn't some publications back in the day have good review sections as a kind of intellectual loss leader? I'm thinking of The Spectator in the '80s, which had perfectly reasonable book reviews cheek-by-jowl with Taki.
One thing to consider is that 1960s National Review had a very good, very eclectic books page that had a lot of writers who did not share the magazine's politics: Garry Wills, Joan Didion, Theodore Sturgeon, Arlene Croce, John Leonard, etc.
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