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What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
There are always lists of books purporting to be what one should read. There are also books readers love. A friend of mine sent me along a link that puts them side by side. 1. ULYSSES by James Joyce* 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald* 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce* 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov* 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Friday, while Seattle's Critical Mass was taking the Viaduct by storm, enciting the slog sturm und drang over here, I was taking my students on a bike tour of the North Side of Chicago. After hitting a number of key sites—James T. Farrell's grave, canals and pumping stations, Chicago's only waterfall, the old Indian treaty boundary line, the Vienna Beef Hot Dog factory, Nelson Algren's boyhood...
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The Longstockings (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
(taken from yesterday's Shelf Awareness) Brooklyn Public Library: 'My Field of Dreams'"The Brooklyn Public Library's main branch at Grand Army Plaza was my field of dreams. I met Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren there, Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell, and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. That library introduced me to Chaim Potok's book The Chosen, as well as to Richard Wright's Native Son....
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
QUOTE OF THE WEEK 'My Field of Dreams' "The Brooklyn Public Library's main branch at Grand Army Plaza was my field of dreams. I met Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren there, Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell, and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. That library introduced me to Chaim Potok's book The Chosen , as well as to Richard Wright's Native Son . In a tough neighborhood the library can be...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 03/15/2009
Ace Atkins at the Arcade Restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photograph by Jay Nolan)Author Ace Atkins’ back story is the stuff of one of those sprawling, robust American novels of the mid-20th-century by Norman Mailer, James T. Farrell, John Steinbeck, or James Jones. He’s the college football star who made the cover of Sports Illustrated and then turned into a muckraking, Pulitzer
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Continuing our sad Monday-morning ritual, there’s a significant literary death from over the weekend to mention. Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and radio personality Studs Terkel died last Friday after a long illness. Terkel, whose adopted first name owes its provenance to James T. Farrell’s American classic, Studs Lonigan, was a tireless chronicler of working class [...]
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
'Curiosity did not kill this cat.'" "Unabashed leftist", Studs Terkel who was blacklisted during the McCarthy has died. Born in 1912 to Russian Jewish parents, he got the nickname Studs as a young man from the character Studs Lonigan, the protagonist of James T Farrell's trilogy of novels about an Irish-American youth from Chicago's south side ... Born in New York, Terkel became synonymous...
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composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
Your birthday today: You have an acquisitive faculty which, if cultivated, will make you very successful. You are restless, but methodical in your habits ; fond of responsibility and like to be a leader. You are devoted to your family and have their love and respect. Nobody is written into the book for today, so acquire your company in celebration of this day from among these birthday notables: Constantine...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
B orn today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, Portland, New Maine, 1807; Laura Richards, author, biographer, 1850; Arthur M. Schlesinger, historian, Xenia, Ohio, 1888; John Steinbeck, novelist, short-story writer, author, Salinas, Calif., 1902; James T. Farrell, novelist, short-story writer, social critic, Chicago, 1904; Peter De Vries, humorist, editor, Chicago, 1910; Lawrence Durrell, novelist,...
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Moderato (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
By Morris Dickstein AMERICAN fiction lost three of its most warmly admired figures this year, all dead at the age of 84 after long careers. Critics love the idea of literary generations, but it would be a challenge to find themes or ideas to link the disparate work of Norman Mailer, Grace Paley and Kurt Vonnegut. [...]
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Phawker (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
BY LOUIS MENAND OF THE NEW YORKER No one would say of Norman Mailer, who died on November 10th, at the age of eighty-four, that he hoarded his gift. He was a slugger. He swung at everything, and when he missed he missed by a mile and sometimes ended up on his tush, but when [...]
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Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Chicago Magazine weighs in with its list of "the ten essential Chicago novels." No real surprises on the list, nor any glaring omissions either: The Cliff-Dwellers (1893), by Henry Blake Fuller Sister Carrie (1900), by Theodore Dreiser The Pit (1903),...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
This is the final segment of a short list of literary schools and movements defining the content and styles of novelists, poets, and dramatists who have flourished in the past 100 years.
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 08/04/2007
Following on our own recent tribute to Ross Macdonald and Tom Nolan, the latter of whom edited the new Macdonald collection, The Archer Files: The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator, novelist Ed Gorman recalls in his own blog: The first Ross Macdonald novel I ever read was The Way Some People Die. He was John Ross Macdonald then, still going back and forth I suppose with
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/23/2007
It's been too long since I've mentioned Ramble House here, as I was reminded when I saw John Breen's Four Star review of this novel in EQMM today. If you're not familiar with Ramble House and its offerings, go here . But not before you read about Richard Lupoff's Marblehead below. Marblehead : "Ramble House is proud to present a new major novel by well-known editor and SF/mystery writer, Richard...
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