Tom Conoboy's Writing Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Morte d’Urban is a most unusual book, a sort of Babbitt with cassocks: big business and the machinations of the Catholic church, it’s an odd mixture indeed. I really don’t know what to make of it. It was published in 1962 and won the National Book Award, beating Nabokov’s Pale Fire , Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools and Updike’s debut, Pigeon Feathers and Other...
Boxing the Octopus (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Just in time for Halloween, a few ghosts who might startle you--bestsellers, Pulitzer, Nobel, and Oscar winners--writer's writers who moonlighted... Katherine Anne Porter In 1962, Porter's novel Ship of Fools sailed to the bestseller list and in 1966, she won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award for her Collected Stories . But her first published work was My Chinese Marriage by Mae T. Franking, a memoir...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Nimrod International Journal from the University of Tulsa is titled "Words at Play" and features works by the 31st Annual Award Winners and Finalists for Poetry and Fiction:The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry First: Mike Nelson, “Acacia”Second: Alicia Case, “Ascension” and other poemsHM: Natalie Diaz, “The Elephants” and other...
O livro dos dias (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland It's a man's world, and you men can have it. ~Katherine Anne Porter Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. ~Jerry Seinfeld Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank...
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Are we on a “Ship of Fools”? From Katherine Anne Porter's novel, Ship of Fools, which was a big prizewinning best-seller in 1962, the producer and...
Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
An interesting decision of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals deals with the literary estate of noted writer Katherine Anne Porter. Ms. Porter died testate in 1980, leaving a literary trust for the benefit of the University of Maryland College...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
An often overlooked and sometimes completely unknown chapter in Sam Peckinpah’s influential and impressive career, 1966’s Noon Wine is one of his most haunting, important and resonate productions. Virtually unseen in the forty plus years since it was broadcast on ABC TV as part of the Stage 67 series, Noon Wine is a mesmerizing and moving near fifty minute work that stands as the equal...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
"I have no hidden marriages. They just sort of escape my mind." - Katherine Anne Porter [New Yorker] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
... actually: Enameled Lady: How Katherine Anne Porter perfected herself. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think Katherine Anne Porter is consistently better than this piece would suggest. I rather suspect Capote ended his days wishing he had managed to become a perfected presence himself. But Porter was a lot tougher than he was, a lot tougher than most of us, probably.
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 04/13/2009
New York, after the war. A young writer--more of a hustler, really--named P. B. Jones attends a publishing party full of artists and literary types. There he meets an older, established author he has long admired named Alice Lee Langman; he eventually becomes her lover for a time . . .
Art Deadlines List (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
The 31st Nimrod Literary Awards: The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. FIRST PLACE: $2,000 and publication. SECOND PLACE: $1,000 and publication. No previously published works or works accepted for publication elsewhere. Author's name must not appear on the manuscript. Include a cover sheet containing major title and subtitles, author's name, full
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
When I and some friends reconnected with our senior-year high school English teacher at Facebook, he posted our syllabus — amazing to see after all this time. Listed there was “Noon Wine,” the story that served as my introduction to Katherine Anne Porter, and it reminded me of the new Library of America collection of [...]
American Spectator (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Katherine Anne Porter : Collected Stories and Writings (Library of America, 1093 pages, $40) "SHE SIGHED WITH A HUMUROUS BITTERNESS. The humor seemed momentary, but the bitterness was a constant state of mind." So Cousin Eva, a Texas schoolmistress, suffragette, and old maid, ca. 1912--her never having married evidently attributable to a recessive chin--reveals her spiritual morbidity to...
BLCKDGRD (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Willam Gass, in the latest Harpers, in a long essay about Katherine Anne Porter:Whether unconsciously or by intent, the writer chooses subjects, adopts a tone, considers an order for the release of meaning, arrives at the rhythm, selects a series...
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Katherine A. Powers's review of the Library of America edition of the works of Katherine Anne Porter begins on a personal note. But it is that rare personal story that is wholly appropriate: Katherine Powers owes her life to her...
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