{"id":42770,"date":"2012-12-04T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=42770"},"modified":"2012-12-05T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:21:04","slug":"william-styron-in-letters-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/william-styron-in-letters-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"William Styron in Letters, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42773\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img080.sflb_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img080.sflb_-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rose Burgunder and William Styron\" width=\"368\" height=\"262\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img080.sflb_-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img080.sflb_-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Burgunder and William Styron.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>To John P. Marquand, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 17, 1953 Rome, Italy<\/p>\n<p>Dear Jack:<\/p>\n<p>I received your telegram, and I must say that Rose and I feel that there would be nothing more delightful than to play Byron with you for a while, and we were especially intrigued by the line which said a special tour was being arranged, or would be arranged, \u201cin our honor,\u201d which conjured up visions of open, bullet-proof sedans, police escorts, and jonquils being thrown into our faces by a frantic populace. It would indeed be nice. But we have talked this thing over and have decided that in view of the fact that we will probably be getting married within the next few weeks, and that Rose\u2019s brother and wife are expected at any moment, it would put a strain on our nervous resources to come, at least my nervous resources, already depleted by a soggy, constant drunkenness brought on in part by the prospect of marriage, by insomnia, by clots, and by a general spiritual enervation resulting from the realization that already, going on 28, I am a wash-up as a writer and \ufb01t only to do the \u201cRecent &amp; Readable\u201d part of the book section in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Time<\/span>. In other words, I will be going through a crisis this spring and although I don\u2019t doubt that Greece is an excellent place to weather such a storm, I hope you can understand my position. I hope also, by the way, that when you \ufb01nish diddling your Greek lady-in-waiting you will come back to Rome in time to take part in the shoddy ceremony which is due to be enacted in the city hall. That will be some time toward the end of this month, no doubt, or the \ufb01rst week or so in May.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Guinzburg has gathered his clots together and has gone back to Paris after a long stay here\u2014which he alternated between the Academy and the Condons. He was the picture of health as he took off for Nice; I still haven\u2019t gotten my tire.<\/p>\n<p>None of the charter subscribers have received copies of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Paris Review<\/span> and are kicking like hell. I don\u2019t know who\u2019s responsible for this fuck-up.\u00a0Did you see the big spread on the rag two weeks ago in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Newsweek<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>The Matthiessens have given birth to a big manchild named Luke. We talked to them on the phone and they said it was as easy as pie. They\u2019ve decided to come to Ravello in June. Why don\u2019t you, too?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve been selling quite handsomely, according to the Times best-seller list\u2014this you no doubt know. I never got above No. 7, but of course I had that prick Salinger as competition. Pretty soon you\u2019ll have more money than Bing Crosby.\u00a0Lots of people reading it in Rome, according to the Lion Bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>Irwin Shaw is living here, ensconced in the most hideous apartment in Parioli. He promises me a wedding shindig, so you\u2019d better be here for the blowout.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime most of the creeps have crept away from the academy for their spring bone-hunt, leaving it clean except for a couple of seedy art historians and myself, who is struggling manfully with his destiny, and who, along with Rose, is looking forward to seeing you again sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Best\u2014<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WCS<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From <a title=\"Random House | Selected Letters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/175056\/selected-letters-of-william-styron-by-william-styron\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/em><a title=\"Random House | Selected Letters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/175056\/selected-letters-of-william-styron-by-william-styron\" target=\"_blank\">Selected Letters of William Styron<em><\/em><\/a><em>, edited by Rose Styron with R. Blakeslee Gilpin. Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Rose Styron. 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