Jonathan Taylor writes:
Confidential to M.S. and anyone else looking for a “cracking” New Yorker–like bathtub reading experience, only British: check out John Shakespeare’s memoir in the Times Literary Supplement of that time in 1956 he sent Philip Larkin a draft of a profile he was writing on him. Oops! Shakespeare reprints the amazing correspondence: “I want to sound more guarded, more complex, more like a person who could possibly write a good poem.”