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It assumes too much knowledge of what New York is like, and London, Boston, Paris and places like that. They don't know anything about that and they care less.” Now you're told that this magazine is edited for the little woman in the farm house out in western Kansas. He was the first person who said it and I remember his saying, “west of the Mississippi River.” “Have you ever been west of the Mississippi River?” He said to me.

I said, “No, quite frankly.”

He said, “Try and think what it's like out there and write for them. This will never do. This will never do. I couldn't buy it.”

I went away depressed. I used to see him from time to time. He went to occasional social affairs. He always sat in the corner and said nothing and looked gloomy, pleating his handkerchief. It was a tick I suppose. He pleated a handkerchief, and pleated it and pleated it. I never knew him intimately enough to even know why he did it. He was a much older person and I wasn't particularly interested in what he was. Sister Carrie I think was written at the turn of the century, but it had no acclaim at this time. I think that book is the most important book written in America for a generation. It's a very important book. I don't think it's fully appreciated today. It was Miss