TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' LETTERS TO DONALD WINDHAM, 1940-65
Edited by DONALD WINDHAM 333 pages. Sandy Campbell. $50.
When he appears on TV talk shows these days, Tennessee Williams seems to be his own Doppelganger: a pale, cackling self-parody. Even his 1975 memoirs were oddly out of focus, as if someone had jiggled his elbow every time he captured a memory. But in this rare collection, the author escapes the stream of self-consciousness to appear confessional and ceaselessly entertaining.
Horace Walpole, the greatest English epistolarian, said that letters should be nothing but conversations on paper. By that definition, Williams ranks as one of the best (and...
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