Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-12 | Page 2 | Western Author Visits Salt Lake on Way to Idaho

W Western ster Author Visits Salt Lake Lae On Way to Idaho Writers Shouldn't Granth Grant Interviews h tei i w Vardis Fisher No Novelist Declares Writers should never give give- in interviews interviews inter inter- r- r views vie declared F Fisher former formet instructor In in b at the theU theU U n i of Ut Utah h hand and author of the nov nov- cl Toilers rs 1 o f t th the e Hills who 1 paid a a. visit to Salt Lake W Wednesday on his w way y to spend a a. vacation on his Ills fathe fathers s r ranch an c Ii in I Idaho ah 0 g Mr Fisher has b e en ass S s with the English de department department department de- de I of New York u n a i Mr Fisher for the past year Up Upon m the spur of ot the moment a ft writer usually usually- utters ban banalities that can n in no way lend Jend to the opinion ones one's re readers ders havo have of of am an authors author's contributions to the field of liter literature nor to lila his own personality he he said For example I Ih have ve a very high I opinion of ot Robert Nathans Nathan's place In 1 literature which I think he in no nowise nowise nowise wise enhanced by his an interview upon his recent re return return return re- re turn from Europe Mr Nathan up up to time this this this' tune had resisted inter- inter views vie Upon succumbing to this one one one-he he uttered only the commonplace common common- p place r. r e phrases talked about about the ob- ob things that every tourist sees whoa whew In Europe and at once set himself in the commonplace rank and file me of ot every-day every sightseers minus the fine tine touch that his ex exquisite ex- ex phrasing found in his Jonah Autumn and The Woodcutters Woodcutter's Woodcutters Woodcutter's Woodcutters Woodcutter's Wood Wood- I cutters cutter's House