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VN & Elaine May: Degrees of Separation?
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In the current, anniversary (75th), issue of the New Yorker, under "Takes"
(p. 205), they reprinted VN's short essay called "Butterflies" (from what
was then _Conclusive Evidence_) which first appeared in the magazine on
June 12, 1948. The essay is placed in the middle of a long article about
Mike Nichols (aka Michael Peschkowsky). The Nichols article briefly
mentions Edmund Wilson who in his late 1950s -- early 1960s journals
wrote frequently about Nichols and Elaine May, whom he greatly admired as
comic "geniuses" and befriended.
Galya Diment