James Joyce’s revolutionary novel takes place on one day, June 16. But that famous novel might never have seen print had Ezra Pound come to Joyce’s aid at a crucial moment in the novelist’s stalled career.
Can a single piece of unsolicited mail change the course of literature? In my opinion, only one letter justifies such a bold claim—a query sent a hundred years ago this month, on December 15, 1913, when Ezra Pound, searching for new talent, reached out to a struggling Irish author living...
