Jill Lepore: The Office from Beginning to End : The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/05/12/140512crbo_books_lepore?currentPage=all&printable=true
In 1952, after “White Collar” was published, Dwight Macdonald, writing in Partisan Review, said he found it “boring to the point of unreadability.” Mills wrote to Macdonald and invited him out to the farmhouse in Pomona to talk about it. “You’ll enjoy the country air, you ignorant, irresponsible bastard,” he told him. Macdonald never came.