It has for some time now been the fashion to say that we are in a morass, and to attempt to get out of the morass by attacking Romanticism; and I am going to do this too.
[Iris Murdoch]

This letter, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, who was her editor for the Little Prairie books, is priceless.

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[With thanks to Thea, and Slate.]