De Vries, Peter "Nobody's Fool: A Character or Two Overlooked in Miss Katharine Anne Porter's Shipload."

New Yorker humorist De Vries deftly punctures the hoopla surrounding the 1962 publication of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools (the novel - cited elsewhere in this bibliography - was a celebrated twenty years in the writing, and many literati wondered whether it would ever actually reach print) in this two-pager. De Vries imagines the author (here called "Mrs. Haverstick" being pursued shipboard by an over anxious publisher's representative eager to gain rights to "the Book," only to learn that Mrs. Haverstick hadn't spent all these years writing - no, she'd spent the time slowly reading it!