For For readers interested in Merton's friendship with Robert Giroux; a specialist's volume of letters, not a first book.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
1 of 5light
His letters with his editor Robert Giroux, from The Seven Storey Mountain onward.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The correspondence of Merton with Robert Giroux, his Columbia contemporary and editor, who accepted The Seven Storey Mountain at Harcourt, Brace and later published him at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2015, edited by Patrick Samway.
