Talk:George W. S. Trow
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[edit] Comment
I first met George Trow in 1976. He was very close to the sister of a very good friend. Besides being very smart and very funny George was also very kind and generous to me when I was a confused fledgling writer. I remember him with great joy, as I greet his passing with great sadness. As to the reference to George W. S. Trow angily leaving The New Yorker over Tina Brown 'inviting Rosanne Barr to "contribute" to the special women's issue', I think it must be explained and clarified that that is very wrong in fact, while accurate in substance. A "contribution" would have been fine, George would have not blinked an eye at that. But Barr was asked by Brown to be the editor of the issue, to have control over the content of an important issue of The New Yorker magazine, an institution to which he'd given much of three decades of his life; and that is very much another thing. This has been reported in the general press, and not having that factual distiction clear and present hurts your otherwise excellent rememberance of George and makes him sound like a foolish stuffed shirt, which he most manifestly and throughly wasn't. Thank you very much.
Yours Truly, Stanley W. White
(moved from article by Spangineerws (háblame) 01:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC))
[edit] What's needed on the page
The page needs a section on Trow's writing style, a link to Wikiquotes (which I'll try to get around to creating), and information on his plays and screenplays. I read City in the Mist once and thought he was better off sticking to essays. Also needed is a section on his importance in American culture, and his effect on other writers. This will require quotes from diverse print sources.Sofia Roberts (talk) 06:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
