Bodenheim self-pitying rant of the day

February 4, 2010

These attitudes of BOORISH REMOTENESS have wearied me, especially since I know that they would not have been given to a Dreiser, or an Anita Loos, under the same circumstances. Frankly, you and the entire B & L staff have treated me cavalierly for just about the last time. Also, accounts of the trial in New York newspapers have disgusted me....I am tired of this endless campaign of calumny, ridicule, and distortion waged against me....The sooner I get out of America and away from the whole curious pack of you, the better it will be for my work.

(from a letter by Maxwell Bodenheim to his publisher, Boni & Liveright, on March 27, 1928)