Jim was really pleased to receive these very positive advance reviews for the Huxley letters by pretty famous folks in the literary world. It's been a long difficult process and it's gratifying that the work is being appreciated.
And he received a very warm and gracious email from Laura Huxley. She is such a wonderful supporter!
From: lauraahuxley@aol.com [mailto:lauraahuxley@aol.com]
Sent: Tue 07/08/2007 5:06 PM
To: James Sexton
Subject: Re: Selected Letters blurbs
Dearest Jim:
Again you have compiled a wonderful new volume of Aldous' work. I can't wait to read these letters.
Please send whatever you have in any form as soon as you can.
Thank you,
Laura
Jim discussing Huxley's work with Laura in her home in the Hollywood Hills.
Advance Reviews:
"Aldous Huxley’s letters represent a valuable contribution to literary history—and an entertaining one. They reflect his high seriousness, and the extraordinary range of his cultural interests; at the same time they abound in witty gossip and shrewdly observed social detail. They also reveal many unexpected aspects of his personality and his private life. The Huxley who emerges from these pages is both formidable and very human. He can sometimes be arrogant or wrong-headed, too—but that doesn't make him any less readable.”—John Gross
“A fascinating and revelatory glimpse into the mental engine room one of the twentieth-century’s most commanding men of letters. Huxley knew everybody, and everybody knew him: these letters provide a vital record of an extraordinary moment in Europe’s history as well as a portrait of an extraordinary man. A volume as entertaining as it is illuminating.”—Roger Kimball
“These newly published letters of Aldous Huxley are like the discovery of buried treasure. It is as if some leading figure from the Age of Enlightenment had survived into the present. Expressing himself so naturally and often wittily in these letters, he sets a lasting example of intelligence and humanity.”—David Pryce Jones
