What Alice Munro also captures so well, common to almost anyone who has ever disclosed themselves as a writer: The barrage of free ‘ideas’ from people who would write something down themselves, if only they had the time. But writers are never short on ideas. The issue is always the inv...
illustrates phillip bonosky’s short story ‘the wishing well’, published in the journal masses and mainstream, whose contributing editors include mike gold, phillip bonosky, paul robeson, and w. e. b. du bois. neel had met bonosky, a reporter for the daily worker, the previous year. ...