LADDER. With her witty knife ever in hand, she slashes to ribbons every story without exception that appeared in THE LADDER during the year 1958. (including two written by this reviewer). Sho laughs out loud at Del Martin's defense of Phyllis Lyon in the articlo, "Is Our Editor Burly?" She misinterprets the letter written by a mother concerning her daughter's happy, constructive Lesbian relationship. I say this with some measure of authority, for my mother wrote the article in question. Miso Aldrich bluntly loathes THE LADDER and she goes out of her way to make it very clear.

The last chapter is a selection of letters ostensibly written by Lesbians to Miss Aldrich praising her as a "beacon on a dark night."

In sum total the book is about half for and half against Lesbianism, with the editor surprisingly on the against side. One wonders how Miss Aldrich feels way up there Judging and dofiling hor people.

Ann of 10,000 Words Plus

I have just had such a hilarious hour with Ann Aldrich's CAROL IN A THOUSAND CITIES that I must try to share tho fun. I am not laughing at the well selected anthology of fiction and psychiatry. That I didn't read because the originals are on my shelves, and believe me, to get even parts of them on anyone's for 50 cents is the bargain of the year. (Adv. and free!)

No

it's the introduction, and the things "written especially for this volumo," and the letters in "Please Listen to Me," and the naively spiteful (and sometime s inaccurate) chapter on THE LADDER that have me hopping with the glee of a puzzle solver. Because whatever her protonse, Miss (or Mrs.?) Aldrich wrote every word of thomor edited with such vi for that they are all unmistakably from one pen. This tempts one irresistibly into Literary Sleuthing, that game played so thrillingly by real buffs' in highbrow quarterlios. And this game

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