SOURCE: A review of Flowering Judas, in The New York Times Book Review, September 28, 1930, p. 6.

In the following review, the critic notes the strength of Porter's technical skill and offers brief assessments of each of the short stories in Flowering Judas.

Katherine Anne Porter is of that youngest generation of American artists from which one dares hope much. The generation—called "our own generation" by Malcolm Cowley, who is 33 years of age—includes Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters and Kenneth Burke. What distinguishes this group from older groups in American letters—the groups that included Dreiser, Anderson and others—is its working practice of putting nothing creative forward until it has been weighed and polished and given the benefit of a hundred second thoughts. This may be evidence, carefully hidden under the fetish of "discipline," of a lack of creative vitality; but, in any event, it...