SOURCE: A review of “Brighter Than Most,” in Prairie Schooner, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Spring, 1960, pp. 1-4.

In the following review of Robert Knoll's Robert McAlmon: Expatriate Publisher and Writer, Boyle—a close friend and collaborator of McAlmon's—identifies factual errors in the book while identifying McAlmon as an unrecognized influence on the prose of Ernest Hemingway and other writers of the 1920s and 1930s.

A great many years ago I wrote a short story called “I Can't Get Drunk.” Somewhere in it I say of the man with whom the story is concerned that maybe he could do something else for his heartache except putting it to sleep. “The trouble with you is that when the lightning struck you it hit you hard,” the girl in the story says to him; “it hit the bark right off you, it ripped you wide open with a scar down the...