Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable

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philosophybits: “The world is all that is the case.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus