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August 1971 Issue
August 1971 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Recollections of a Cultural Imperialist
    James C. Thomson
  • Prague
    Flora Lewis
  • Innocent Bystander: The Sex Biz
    L. E. Sissman
  • Contributors
  • The Editor's Page
  • A Future Literacy
    George Steiner

Starting to Write: Paris, 1921

“A writer is, at the very least, two persons.”Mr. Pritchett tells how he entered into the pain and pleasure of the double life.

By V. S. Pritchett
August 1971 Issue
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