"A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others."
— V. S. Naipaul

January 1, 1970

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"Steinbeck in Monterey" (1970), in Daily Telegraph Magazine (3 April 1970), later published in The Overcrowded Barracoon, and other articles (1972)