AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, Vol. 30, No. 4, May/June 2009
"Author of the prize-winning novel The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (2001), editor of several literary anthologies and numerous essays and stories published widely in literary magazines, DeWitt Henry is perhaps best known as the founding editor of Ploughshares. This memoir, packed with Henry's personal life and growth as an artist, also traces the launching and the daily struggles of one of America's top literary magazines. But this is more than memoir's also a philosophical work, a speculative work. It's above all a masterpiece of form and style. Henry is the consummate craftsman, his eye out for the right word, his pulse tuned to the right mood. I think of this memoir as a fine piece of orchestral music, enriched by its different movements and moods–everything building, everything contributing to a pleasing harmonic whole…This memoir is like a fine piece of orchestral music, enriched by its different movements and moods."Read full review.American Book Review May/June 2009 issue Volume 3 No. 4“