Sublime

“Palace at 4 A.M.,” I

good blood and a good disposition. One

through the yearbook carefully from cover to cover looking for him. He isn’t in any group picture or on any list of names.

“But I know that he has a gun. And from the way he is acting—”

Maxwell Perkins gave all his authors the feeling that he cared as much for their work as they did themselves.

“Why don’t you write yourself?” she inquired in a letter. “I have a feeling you could write so much better than most of the people who do write.” Perkins delivered his response when they met next. She recalled, “Max just stared at me for a long time and said, ‘Because I’m an editor.’

Another event that cheered Max was his publishing a promising new writer named Morley Callaghan, a Canadian. Callaghan had met Hemingway when their careers at the Toronto Star overlapped; then he went to

Rabbit at Rest,

so that instead of being stuck there he could go on and by the grace of God lead his own life, undestroyed by what was not his doing.