SOURCE: A review of “A Hasty Bunch,” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 4, Fall, 1977, pp. 416-17.

In the following excerpted review of a reissue of McAlmon's A Hasty Bunch, Peden favorably compares McAlmon's depictions of small-town life with Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

A Hasty Bunch was privately printed in Dijon in 1922 and was virtually forgotten long before McAlmon's death in 1956. McAlmon himself was remembered, if at all, as the early publisher—at his own expense—of Pound, Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, Gertude Stein and a good many others, most of whom were later to become enemies. The recent revival of interest in the American expatriates of the early Twenties and the reissue in 1970 of McAlmon's Being Geniuses Together, along with such books as Sanford J. Smoller's Adrift Among Geniuses and Hugh Ford's Published in Paris have rescued him from comparative oblivion.

It's about time, too, and the...