title: Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1941
author: M. F. K. Fisher
description: The introduction by her sister states that Fisher, who died at age 83 in 1992, pulled these eclectic choices together to complete her earlier memoirs, To Begin Again . Culled from journals, correspondences and short stories, these were intended to describe Fisher's life "as it really happened to her and as she felt it at the time," according to Barr. After their fruitful years in France, Fisher and her husband Al rode out the bleak Depression years with their families in California. They later traveled in Switzerland in the company of their friend, Dillwyn ("Timmy") Parrish, but the threesome broke up when the author and Parrish fell in love. In 1937, after her divorce from Al, the two married, but their union was ill-fated: intolerable pain from an incurable disease drove Parrish to suicide in 1941. The elegantly earthy style of the book is familiar, as is Fisher's theme: the need for good food and love. But as in the title story about the narrator's meeting with an alcoholic friend and her wealthy lesbian lover, there is a certain chilly distance to the narrator's descriptions of the disintegration of her once sparkling boarding school chum, one which hints at a ruthless persona not often seen in the usually wise and witty Fisher. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: PAUL GOODMAN
  THE FACTS OF
  LIFE
  STORIES 1940-1949
  VOLUME III
  of the
  COLLECTED
  STORIES
  EDITED BY
  TAYLOR STOEHR
  
  BOSTON
  PUBLIC
  
  BY PAUL GOODMAN
  1934
  Ten Lytic Poems
  1935
  12 Ethical Sonnets
  1936
  15 Poems with Time Expressions
  1937
  Homecoming & Departure
  1938
  Childish Jokes: Crying Backstage
  1939
  A Warning at My Leisure
  1941
  Five Young American Poets: Second Series (with
  Jeanne McGahey, Clark Mills, David Schubert, and
  Karl Shapiro)
  1941
  Stop-Light: 5 Dance Poems
  1942
  The Grand Piano: or, The Almanac of Alienation
  1942
  Pieces of Three (with Meyer Liben and Edouard Roditi)
  1945
  The Facts of Life
  1946
  Art and Social Nature
  1946
  The State of Nature
  1946
  The Copernican Revolution
  1947
  The Copernican Revolution (expanded edition)
  1947
  Kafka's Prayer
  1947
  Communitas: Means of Livlihood and Ways of Life
  (with Percival Goodman)
  1949
  The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories
  1950
  The Dead of Spring
  1951
  Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the
  Human Personality (with Frederick S. Perls and
  Ral