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"Die of Sheer Joy with My Head on the Manuscript"

"Die of Sheer Joy with My Head on the Manuscript" MARY LEE SETTLE INTERVIEWS Matthew J. Bruccoli Mary Lee Settle: The Beulah Quintet manuscript is one of the last handwritten manuscripts on large art paper. It'll never fade. I wrote it that way because I don't see very well. Matthew J. Bruccoli: I remember your telling me about writing in the British Museum Reading Room and using different color pens because of your eyesight problem. George Garrett said you're moving back to Charlottesville. MLS: Well, I am because I am writing my last book, and damn it to hell it's gonna be my last book. After that, I don't know what I'm gonna do. You know what I hope happens, Matt? I hope that when I write this that it is the crown of my whole life's work. The Beulah Quintet, and I still didn't find how we got the separation of church and state. So I wrote about Roger Williams. Now, I'm writing about what came into the mind of a gangling 9 to 14-year-old in a frontier county, who had had to live with rich relations up til the time he was nine. Who was surrounded by disenters, so that the first thing that he, when http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

"Die of Sheer Joy with My Head on the Manuscript"

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Abstract

MARY LEE SETTLE INTERVIEWS Matthew J. Bruccoli Mary Lee Settle: The Beulah Quintet manuscript is one of the last handwritten manuscripts on large art paper. It'll never fade. I wrote it that way because I don't see very well. Matthew J. Bruccoli: I remember your telling me about writing in the British Museum Reading Room and using different color pens because of your eyesight problem. George Garrett said you're moving back to Charlottesville. MLS: Well, I am because I am writing my last book, and damn it to hell it's gonna be my last book. After that, I don't know what I'm gonna do. You know what I hope happens, Matt? I hope that when I write this that it is the crown of my whole life's work. The Beulah Quintet, and I still didn't find how we got the separation of church and state. So I wrote about Roger Williams. Now, I'm writing about what came into the mind of a gangling 9 to 14-year-old in a frontier county, who had had to live with rich relations up til the time he was nine. Who was surrounded by disenters, so that the first thing that he, when

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2006

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