Dear Ian, as a member of this Review’s Editorial Board and as a scholar of Williams, I want to inform you and our readers that I have just published a book on Botteghe Oscure and American literature (Botteghe Oscure e la letteratura statunitense, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021, pp. 378), in which Williams plays a significant role. As the book is in Italian (except for all the documents in English cited in it), I am writing this letter to alert our readers of its publication.
When six years ago I spent a month at the Ransom Center in Austin to read in its holdings concerning the literary journal Botteghe Oscure (1948–1960), I was astonished to find out that in the US everybody interested in literature—from the US or elsewhere—knew of the publication which is the topic of my volume. In my own country, when I...
