<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2">When I do the write up for The Dark of the June stories, it has not escaped my attention that paper is particularly important to a novelist and in those stories from the very opening paragraph, where the main character's room could have sprung from the picture in a newspaper (and to the text Harry Nailer shall return), and it seems perhaps thematically important not only to those stories but to Wolfe in general that
these trees create a durable landscape to house the author's words, trees dying so the ideas might flourish and approach immortality. </font></div><br> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>