Two mid-century writers you don’t hear a lot about are getting some attention: Penelope Mortimer at The Daily Beast, and Phyllis McGinley at The Paris Review. Though they shared publication histories (and initials), their styles couldn’t have been more different. Penelope tended to write dark, confessional stories about the difficulties of marriage and love, while Phyllis wrote about “the stability of married life, the fine china, the deviled eggs.”
