“Of all the men I slept with in my studio-bed on Gay Street (and there were a lot: I stopped counting) I liked Bill Mangold the best. Until I began to see Philip Rahv.”

Source: Intellectual Memoirs: New York 1936–1938 (1992), Ch. 2

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