To the Editors: Giles Harvey writes that Shirley Hazzard “loved to embroider her sumptuous prose with stock phrases and received ideas” [“‘All One’s Capacities,’” NYR, October 21, 2021]. Once, at an event honoring someone, she said, “He always goes whole hog, which [pause] is the only kind of hog to go.” Edward MendelsonNew York City
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