Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
August 21, 2010
Novelist Robert Phelps described novelist James Salter as a “minority of one; a new herb in the cabinet,” and later wrote that Salter’s letters were like gospel to him. Phelps introduced Salter to the works of a dozen writers crucially important to shaping him as a novelist. Salter says Phelps was one of the most important influences in his life and in whatever he wrote after they met. The correspondence which began with a fan letter from Phelps to Salter spanned decades. The intimacy of the letters continues.
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