“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”
Ross Wetzsteon
Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
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