1958, William V. Ward [ed.], Provincetown Review (AMS Press), volume 1, issues 1–4, page iv And to be honest about it, and show what a mulligan stew we have sometimes been, there is also in that first noble issue a chapter from a pert novel by Joyce Elbert who is now writing big-league sex novels with big-league advances in an attempt to outfuck, in print, the lady who wrote “Valley of the Dolls.” Ye shall know us by our variety, even then!
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