Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones
Hettie Jones is the author of numerous books, including her memoir of the Beat scene How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive; and the young adult Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music. She has published in many newspapers and magazines, including the Village Voice, Global City Review, and Ploughshares. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School, the 92nd Street Y, and the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and she previously taught at several colleges and universities in New York and elsewhere. Jones lives in New York City.
While Hettie and cotenants continue to fight, without regulations in Gloucester, Helene is evicted three times in two years but finally lands safely in 1764 house. Editor at Little, Brown rejects Hettie’s completed memoir manuscript in 1986, and though her agent reassures, she is devastated and feels some decisions were racist. Helene gets grant for another show in Gloucester. Hettie explains in narrative that Helene, like herself, regularly reads works by African Americans, an additional contribution to their friendship. Hettie works long hours proofreading in ad agency while revising book; a thirty-day eviction notice threatens her because there is still...
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