The Starched Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirs
(amazon)The Estate of Josephine Herbst (View Bio)
Northeastern University Press, 1999
HarperCollins, 1991
"Her best book.... Blazingly alive with all the passion, nostalgia for the old Midwest and the contrariness in general that made Herbst a favorite among the many writers who were her friends...Her lyric radiance is all here. Every word of it is in contrast to the commercial swamp and academic frivolity of American writing today. It is a startling personal document." — Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review
"Four incomparable essays.... Insight and unstudied elegance are displayed in memoirs of the Midwest and of Germany as the Nazi threat loomed during the 1920s." — Publishers Weekly
"A radical document, not just well-wrought reminiscence." — The Nation
