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- ↑ "Introduction, The Weed King & Other Stories, pp. xi-xxxi; quoted material on p. xiii
- ↑ "Anvil Description". Index of Modernist Magazines. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ↑ Wixon, Douglas. Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Radicalism, 1898-1990. University of Illinois Press, 1994. pg 415.
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