1 day ago by Jonathan S.

From a site dedicated to the works of J.D. Salinger... Aside from his Nine Stories, JD Salinger published twenty-two stories in various magazines which remain uncollected. Several attempts have been made to compile these stories together but have met stiff resistance by the author. Spanning his lite ...

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2 days ago by Hunter

Born in Albany in 1874, Charles Fort, the so-called “father of modern phenomenalism, ” was something of a factotum in his early years. After a formative trek from England to the south of Africa, Fort spent the next decade of life working odd jobs, while attempting to gain a foothold as a newsman and ...

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8 days ago by Jonathan S.

Truman Capote's masterful In Cold Blood is fifty years old. The Guardian takes another look at the book and the slaughter of a family in Holcomb, Kansas. From the piece... Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives." That was how Truman Capote summed up the murders with somewhat great ...

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11 days ago by pearlpal1

by Paul Collins It’s not much of an exaggeration at all for me to say that if Paul Collins happened to write a book about – say – the history of Seattle as recounted through its Yellow Pages, I’d immediately request it from my neighborhood library and probably spend the next few days doing nothing b ...

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12 days ago by Andrew Seal

Aaron has brought up Nina Baym's canonical essay "Melodramas of Beset Manhood" twice recently— once w/r/t Mark Greif's essay on the struggle for gay marriage and then again in discussing the Publishers Weekly epic fail of coming up with a male-only shortlist for 2009. Not having read the essay (desp ...

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12 days ago by AdvisorAnalyst

Here are this weekend’s reading selections. Is Friday the 13th really unlucky? Are we really going to get rid of the handshake? You decide. Friday the 13th: “The Most Widespread Superstition” November-12-09, 8:22 PM Friday the 13th is considered unlucky in a number of cultures, including English, Po ...

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13 days ago by Jonathan S.

There's an illuminating post in The Guardian (without question one of the best book sites on the internet) about World War I, the literature it spawned, and how those on the firing line recorded their experiences of it. From the piece... Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front became a ...

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15 days ago by lizardlez

Well, there has been another flurry of emails amongst my middle sister (Executor of our dad's will), my youngest sister, my daughter & me about our inheritance from our deceased parents (grandparents), probate court, etc. Much of this stuff is of no interest to anyone but us, but I'm disturbed that ...

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16 days ago by Jonathan S.

You've heard of Jane Austen. But have you heard of Maria Edgeworth? The Second Pass illuminates you. From the piece... Maria Edgeworth might be the most important nineteenth-century novelist to have gotten lost in the twentieth. Like Fanny Burney before her and Mary Shelley after her, Maria was rais ...

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21 days ago by chris

[While writing the conclusion for the Mansfield Park essay (which I am about to post) I realised that it relies on an assumption that may not be widely shared--that the rise of the realistic novel in the 18th century was a significant factor in the development of modern thought--so I will discuss it ...

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