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TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Steinbeck is of the generation that arrives just after the Muckrakers,Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris, Sinclair Lewis, who thought that fiction was something of a sociological/anthropological tool in getting at the skewed relations between races and classes in a capitalist economy. Some larger truth, discovered by a focus imagination, could get beyond supposition and provide the correct vision for reform....
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Recently Banned Literature (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
California Classics The Creative Literature of the Golden State by Lawrence Clark Powell The Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles (1971) [click to enlarge] Works and authors discussed: Anza’s California Expeditions , by Herbert E. Bolton; The Journey of the Flame , by Walter Nordhoff; Death Valley in ’49 , by William L. Manly; The Land of Little Rain , by Mary Austin; The Wonders of the Colorado...
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(Roughly) Daily (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
John Bull (England) as an octopus of imperialism (American cartoon,1888); source: HistoryMike For more images of this provocative sort (and discussion thereof), see Vulgar Army, “an informal study into the use of the Octopus as an (often unreflective) metaphor in propaganda and political cartoons, and [of] the intersection of the political with popular culture.” As we [...]
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Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Just as in War and Peace history has its own dynamism and logic, pushing people forward in a relentless fashion, so too in Frank Norris' The Octopus rancher and railroader alike must serve the impersonal forces of supply and demand. Remember Shelgrim's words to Presley? -"Men have little to do with the whole business. Can anyone stop the wheat? Well, then, no more can I stop the road." All...
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Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Frank Norris The Octopuss. American Book Poster. Daily Thoughts 5/11/2009
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FxDomains.net (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Frank Norris is in the same camp of writers as that of Theodore Dreiser. Published in 1899, this book addresses greed like none other. Norris died at the age of 32, unfortunately. I open a review of McTeague with the following: 'Readers might not ...
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Jessica Schneider (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Click here to see my book selection over on M&C this month. This is one of the best books about greed I've read. I have a review that can be found here . Norris is lumped beside the Dreiser camp, though Norris died young--at the age of 32. Check out Dan's poetry essay here .
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Jessica Schneider (Free subscription) | 01/25/2009
Yesterday Dan and I went to Half Price Books and I was able to locate a number of good book buys. Some of the titles I purchased were: The Octopus by Frank Norris Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif One Man in Havana by Graham Greene Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene The Agnes Browne Trilogy by Brendan O'Carroll (Titles include...
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Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 12/20/2008
It's no secret the condo sector isn't doing so hot as of late. But have sales been cold enough to forgo the law? Well, uh, yes -- at least in the case of 1314 Polk Street. The Frank Norris Place...
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SocketSite™ (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
As we wrote 14 months ago: What most people already know about Frank Norris Place (81 Frank Norris): it’s a new development of 32 one bedroom “luxury condos” on Polk; it’s been selling for about six months; and it...
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Jessica Schneider (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Read my review of this great classic.
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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Norris makes it so you can believe people like this would exist, and such is the sign of an excellent writer. Readers might not know a whole lot about Frank Norris due to his short life (1870-1902), but he is part of that school of modern style writers that include Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Annoying purple prose still lingering from the days of the Victorian Era? You will not find that here....
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Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Pit is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Detailing wheat speculation and the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second in what was to be the Epic of Wheat trilogy (the first being The Octopus (1901)). The third book, Wolf, was never completed. It served as the basis for A Corner in Wheat a 1909 short film directed by D. W. Griffith which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries...
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Material Interest (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Opening tonight: McTeague's Saloon, a San Francisco drinkery that offers as much in the way of microbrews as it does nostalgia. Named after the title character from Frank Norris' 1899 novel, the bar features design elements that reference the Old...
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banane (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Someone I don't know that well, but moved to North Beach right around when I did, Jackson West, has been blogging about North Beach on Curbed SF. He says, On a bad day, it's like living in an off-brand corner of Disneyland. On a good day, reading Frank Norris in a claw-foot tub older than your [...]
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