Edmund Wilson’s all purpose bugger off reply
Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose “get lost” letter
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Edmund Wilson's all-purpose bugger-off reply. (Via Tim Ferriss)...
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Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Edmund Wilson's all-purpose bugger-off reply. (Via Tim Ferriss)...
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Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter - Boing Boing
dumbfoundry (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him under any circumstance to take part in chain-poems..."
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Locking Yourself Away to Focus On Making...
Working With Words (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... the time he wanted to spend on the novels. They were, however, an economic necessity. He wrote to Edmund Wilson, “I really worked hard as hell last winter—but it was all trash and it nearly broke my heart as well as my iron constitution.” He wrote that he was “far from satisfied with the whole affair.” A young man “can work at excessive speed with...
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Isaiah
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... Post; the diplomat George Kennan; the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann; and the literary critic Edmund Wilson. more from Evan R. Goldstein at The Chronicle Review here .
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Was a WWII Classic Too Gay?
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
How courageous was my father’s stand? Only five years before the publication of From Here to Eternity, Doubleday published Edmund Wilson’s novel, Memoirs of Hecate County. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice raided Doubleday bookstores in Manhattan and seized 130 copies of the book due to its explicit depiction of heterosexual sex. The New York District Attorney charged Doubleday...
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Great Depression reading
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
My literary tour of the Great Depression continues. Over the weekend (thanks in part to Internet-connection problems that kept me off my laptop, blissfully as I now realize) I finished Edmund Wilson's The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump,...
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"It was only during the age of candlelight that the race of ghosts really flourished," or, Edmund Wilson as uncanny anthologist
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... world in thinking that readers might find eerie tales a welcome distraction: on turning to Edmund Wilson 's review of the book in the May 25, 1944 issue of the New Yorker * (from which the current edition of the book takes his quote praising "a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror"), I discovered the review was occasioned by the publication of no fewer than...
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Saluting Sherlock Holmes with 'Hound of the Baskervilles'
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... cut through. But it's suffused with the qualities that made even that mystery-hating critic Edmund Wilson call the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective tales "among the most amusing of fairy tales." No one has ever looked as commanding in Holmes' cape and peaked hunting cap as Basil Rathbone, who even in his non-Holmes films could concentrate so intently that he seemed to levitate...
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Allopathic reading ...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... scary stories for scary times: "It was only during the age of candlelight that the race of ghosts really flourished," or, Edmund Wilson as uncanny anthologist . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... it was published in early 1944, when the war, though going far better than it had been a few years before, was still a long way from being over.
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"Tis like enough, that all Monasteries had Dungeons too; for they have the power of Life and Death within themselves," or, More John Aubrey
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Those of you who are either scholars or obsessive dilettantes by nature will understand when I explain that the post I intended to write tonight has been temporarily derailed by too much digging. As John Crowley puts it , "The further in you go, the bigger it gets," and that's what happened tonight, as an Edmund Wilson quote on the cover of a favorite anthology of creepy tales...
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A livelier spirit ...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... actually: The sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) "... Blackmur, as close to a genius as American criticism ever produced (excepting only Poe) ... " I think some - not I - would put forth Edmund Wilson as a critic of genius, and have much evidence to support their case. My choice for the critic as artist would be Van Wyck Brooks, whose critical judgments...
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Progressivism Then (As Now)
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Edmund Wilson, from "Meditations of a Progressive", circa 1930-31 (collected in The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump): ...Still, one who like to see them come out and say, "Capitalism has got to go. It's just a question of...
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How can you know anything about literature if all you've done is read books?
Squandermania and other foibles (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... in the original novel. A brief but very sharp piece by Hallman himself in which he accuses Edmund Wilson (“you sly old bat”) of murdering Henry James’s Turn of the Screw . James Wood, lucid and arresting as ever, likening Chekhov’s notebook to “a mattress in which he stuffed his stolen money.” Michael Chabon writing about “the other James,”...