The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow

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JVOtes INTRODUCTION 1. Thomas A. Gullason, "The 'Lesser' Renaissance: The American Short Story in the 1920s," in The American Short Story, 1900-1945: A Critical History, ed. Philip Stevick (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984),72. 2. Harriette Simpson Arnow, interview byJohn Douglass, 5 October 1982, for the Kentucky Writers Oral History Project. 3. Ibid. 4. Harriette Arnow, What Berea Meant to Me (circa 1952), 2. 5. Cora Lucas, '''A Dream ... That's What I Came out For': A Recollection and Appreciation of Harriette Arnow," Adena: A Journal ofthe History and Culture ofthe Ohio Valley I, no. 2 (Fall 1976): 128-29. 6. Harriette Simpson Arnow, videocassette directed by Herb E. Smith (Whitesburg , Ky.: Appalshop, 1987). 7. Nancy CarolJoyner, "Harriette Simpson Arnow," AppalachianJournall4, no. 1 (Fall 1986): 53. 8. James G. Watson, "The American Short Story: 1930-1945," in The American Short Story, 1900-1945: A Critical History, ed. Philip Stevick, (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984), 103-4. 9. Harriette Simpson Arnow to Harold Strauss, February 1938, Arnow Special Collection, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 10. Barbara L. Baer, "Harriette Arnow's Chronicles of Destruction," The Nation Uanuary 1976): 117-20. 11. Watson, "American Short Story," 104. NOTES 12. Ibid., 109. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid., 107. 15. Glenda Hobbs, "Starting Out in the Thirties: Harriette Arnow's Literary Genesis," in Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s, ed. Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982), 147. 16. David Bernstein to Harriette Simpson, 8 October 1935, Arnow Special Collection , Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 17. Ibid. 18. Cleanth Brooks, letter to Harriette Simpson, 5 December 1935, Arnow Special Collection, Margaret I. King Library, University ofKentucky, Lexington. 19. It was reprinted in at least four anthologies: Cleanth Brooks, John Purser, and Robert Penn Warren's Approaches to Literature (1939,1952); Brooks and Warren's Anthology ofStories from the Southern Review (1935); Albert Stewart's Kentucky Writing: No.4. Deep Summer (1963); and Robert]. Higgs, Ambrose Manning, andJim Wayne Miller's Appalachia Inside Out (1995). 20. Alex Kotlowitz, "At 75, Full Speed Ahead," Detroit Free Press, 4 December 1983,24. 21. Hobbs, "Starting Out," 149. 22. John Flynn, "AJourney with Harriette Simpson Arnow," Michigan Quarterly Review 29, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 257-58. 23. Mary Rohrberger, "The Question of Regionalism: Limitation and Transcendence ," in The American Shmt Story, 1900-1945: A Critical History, ed. Philip Stevick (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984), 148. 24. Quoted in Gullason, "The 'Lesser' Renaissance," 100. 25. Ray B. West, The Shmt Story in America, 1900-1950 (Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1968), 116. 26. Haeja K. Chung, "Fictional Characters Come to Life: An Interview," in Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995),280. 27. Watson, "American Short Story," 129. 28. Ibid., 126. 29. An unpublished typescript of "The Lamb Money" has "Chapter I" penciled on the first page. The story begins, "Nunnley Ballou rolled his quid of tobacco from one thin cheek to the other and read slowly, following each . 252 • NOTES word with a knotty brown finger, the printing on the can of dog food in his hand." Except for the spelling of Nunnely Ballew's name in the novel, the sentence exactly reproduces the opening of Hunter's Horn. The story is not reprinted in this collection because it so nearly matches the novel's first chapter. "King Devil's Bargain" is a shorter version of Chapter Three of Hunter's Horn, which omits the opening paragraphs and the ending pages that appear in the novel. 30. Haeja K. Chung, "The Harbinger: Harriette Simpson Arnow's Short Fiction ," in Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995), 101. 31. Harriette Arnow, "No Time for Fame," Writer's Digest 25, no. 2 Uanuary 1945): 19. WINKY CREEK'S NEW SONG 1. Arnow explains in Old Burnside that her first story was about a grand writing desk, full of cubbyholes, that could talk about what they held. MARIGOLDS AND MULES 1. The published story reads, "Not one." 2. The published manuscript uses the present tense: "I look a long time." 3. "Aways" in published manuscript. 4. The published story uses "flash" for "flesh." A MESS OF PORK 1. Arnow occasionally writes "post office" as one word. KETCHUP-MAKING SATURDAY 1. Arnow also created characters named High Pockets and Delphine...