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• W2041254503 abstract "REMEMBRANCES OF MARY LEE SETTLE In the Literary Trenches with Mary Lee Starling Lawrence Mary Lee must have been in her early eighties when I first met her, and we—W. W Norton & Company—had just bought the rights to what would turn out to be her luminous final novel, I, Roger Williams. I don't remember much about the meeting itself, except that I felt a bit faint afterward because—as I would learn—Mary Lee had a tendency to suck all the oxygen out of whatever room she happened to be in. Someone, a colleague, asked me what she was like. Wasn't she really old? Old maybe, I replied, but if she ever had any more marbles than she has right now, I don't want to know about it. She and I went on to have a wonderful, rewarding friendship for the rest of her life, a friendship based on so many things: books and writing; food, wine, and garlic; her literary projects and mine (about which she was unfailingly generous and encouraging.) Her enthusiasm for life and the things and people she loved would have been remarkable in a person half her age. Well, great spirits—and she was certainly one of those—are not always easy to live with or work with on a day-to-day basis, and once Mary Lee had got herself established in Kinsale, Virginia, and later in Charlottesville, we were in touch by e-mail several times a week. She was not shy about giving advice, literary or otherwise, and although the advice was always motivated by love and good will, it was not necessarily useful. The reason, I think, was that she told you what she would do in your situation, with the result that the wisdom was hard to apply, unless you happened to be Mary Lee. She once wrote me about the book I was writing at the time: I hesitate to ask about your fine book, because every time you seem to get going again the world bangs at your door. I won't give advice; I don't know where you are. Like Bernard Shaw said to the USA, I have no advice. I told you what to do last time and you haven't done it yet! If she had one over-riding regret about our friendship—or about me—it would be my determined, reiterated, ungrateful refusal to be cured of sciatica and an arthritic back by the Alexander Method, as administered by Mary Lee Settle. Dammit, she said once, I've had terrible arthritis, but here I am, eighty-six years old, and I can still put 36 my pants on standing up! With such an irresistible walking advertisement as herself, she was unwilling to take no for an answer—when did she ever do that, I wonder—and her insistence on curing me explains why I now have the world's most expensive massage table sitting in my apartment. It was her own massage table, a particularly sturdy one, and a couple of years ago she lugged it up all the way from Kinsale on the train. So single-minded was she that in the process of getting the table off the train at Penn Station, she quite forgot about her other luggage, which was whisked away to points north, never to be seen again. Since Mary Lee was also coming up to New York for some celebration in honor of The Paris Review, she needed more than the clothes she was wearing, and our first stop the next day was Bloomingdale's. Of course I paid the bill—it was the least I could do, apparently—and in return the table became a permanent fixture in my apartment. I regard it with mixed feelings: specifically, irritation and affection. Another hiccup in our friendship was my refusal to roll over and play my assigned part as the humble, adoring editor of the great author. I had occasionally to tell Mary Lee things she didn't want to hear about her writing, and a crisis was reached in the editing of her most recent book, The Spanish Recognitions. The best way..." @default.
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