Connors would later write in a piece on his time at The Journal in n+1, “the agrarian pictures of Walker Evans and the homoerotic pictures of Robert Mapplethorpe were morally equivalent. Bartley, the old editor checked it out for five minutes before leaving for the more aristocratic haunts of the Egyptian galleries. Connors recommended a Walker Evans exhibition at the Met to Mr. Connors had grown up poor on a farm in rural Minnesota, waiting in line for handouts of government cheese. Connors when he became a copy editor, was on the record saying he didn’t believe there were any poor people left in America–“just a few hermits or something like that.” Mr. Bob Bartley, then the editorial-page editor of The Journal, who interviewed Mr.
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