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Reuel K. Wilson

Reuel K. Wilson is the author of The Literary Travelogue and co-author of Poland’s Caribbean Tragedy. He is currently working on a book, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod, from which the essay in this issue is taken. Another selection appeared recently in Paris Review.

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Edmund Wilson’s Cape Cod Landscape

Beginning in the summer of 1920, when he came to see Edna St. Vincent Millay in Truro, Massachusetts, my father, Edmund Wilson, made a habit of visiting the Cape Cod shoreline. He was fascinated by the Cape's unique mixture of forest, marsh, bay, and [...]