The letters and essays between these two influential writers form a narrative that reads almost like a novel. I found it helpful for working on my book Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio, but I also found it to be an entertaining document about friendship and the writing craft.

These letters won't refute Anderson's reputation for being sentimental. If you don't mind that, this book gives insight into a writer who greatly loved humanity, especially the woman he called "E."

Though I love Sherwood Anderson, I completely hate this book. Anderson's writing often benefits from repeated words or phrases. Here the repetition just adds to the monotony of a tedious and tiresome novel.