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July/August 1993 | Contents
HOMERLY ADVICE
from the introduction by Betsy Wade to FORWARD POSITIONS: THE WAR CORRESPONDENCE OF HOMER BIGART, compiled and edited by Betsy Wade. University of Arkansas Press. 240 pp. $ 24.95
When [Homer Bigart] was in Vietnam, I wrote him that when I encountered great art and great music, Bix Beiderbecke for instance, I despaired of ever doing anything enduring while working for a newspaper, even an eminent one. "As you say, the newspaper business is an inadequate vehicle, but it will take a profound psychological shock to make me ever want to rise above it," he wrote. "I have no burning message." And at another point, in a more practical mood: "You shouldn't listen to Biederbecke if it depresses you."
