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Introducing Gladys Swan, multi-artist.

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From: The Literary Review
Date: 20040922
Author:Kennedy, Thomas E.

I began reading the stories of Gladys Swan just over twenty, years ago, in the literary journals I studied as a fledgling writer, including the grand old Sewanee Review whose editor, George Core, has likened her voice to that of Sherwood Anderson.

Eager for more, I learned that she had only published a single collection, On the Edge of the Desert. A strong collection it was, though, whose stories, in her own words, employed the imagination as "a way of knowing quite as valid as anything the rational mind can yield. " In the 25 years since that first collection, the body of ...

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