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This Week in Literary HistoryJune 1st, 2009 American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter, 1850) is born in Salem, Mass., 1804. Nathaniel Hawthorne, b. July 4, 1804, d. 1864
Suggested Reading Novels The Scarlet Letter, 1850. The House of the Seven Gables, 1851. The Blithedale Romance, 1852. The Marble Faun, 1860. Tales & Sketches Twice-Told Tales, 1837-1851. Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846-1854. Tanglewood Tales, 1853. Essays Our Old Home, 1863. Journals The American Notebooks, 1932. The English Notebooks, 1941.
Posted by: The Editors This Month in Black LambVolume 7, Number 6 — June 2009June 1st, 2009 The Black Lamb Review of Books In this our fourth annual all-book issue, Terry Ross discusses a rediscovered but still largely unknown major novelist of the Forties, Fifites, and Sixties, Dawn Powell. In Forbidden literature, Dean Suess tells the reader to “get over you bad white self” and go ahead and enjoy Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories and Little Black Sambo. Elizabeth Fournier praises the bible of folks who like to use their car engines as kitchens in Cookin’ with gas.
Posted by: The Editors Forbidden literatureJune 1st, 2009 BY DEAN SUESS I don’t remember much about my childhood. Images preserved in musty photo albums inform and reinforce most of my “memories.” Occasionally, I experience intense episodic synapses that deliver the smell, sound, and exact memory of some event in my past. However, no photos or latent synapses have ever delivered forth the slightest memory of reading.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryJune 1st, 2009 In 1908, evocative English travel writer Norman Lewis (A Goddess in the Stones, 1991) is born in Forty Hill, North London. Norman Lewis, b. June 28, 1908, d. 2003
Suggested Reading Travel Spanish Adventure, 1935. Sand and Sea in Arabia, 1938. A Dragon Apparent, 1951. Golden Earth, 1952. The Honoured Society, 1964. The Missionaries, 1988. A Goddess in the Stones, 1991. An Empire of the East, 1993. In Sicily, 2000. Autobiography Naples ’44, 1978. Jackdaw Cake, 1985. The World, the World, 1996.
Posted by: The Editors Last month in Black LambVolume 7, Number 5 — May 2009May 1st, 2009 In our cover article, Madeleines, Toby Tompkins’s memory is activated not by a Proustian biscuit but by a sound heard in a hallway. In our page two feature, History lessons, Ian Archer reflects on his pride in being his own cousin. Elizabeth Fournier describes how she came to be involved with corpses in Rendezvous with death.
Posted by: The Editors Two months ago in Black LambVolume 7, Number 4 — April 2009April 1st, 2009 The All Guns & Hunting Issue In our cover article, The near hunter, Erik Rhey recalls being the odd man out in hunting territory. In The End of Hunting, our page 2 feature, Greg Roberts offers several better ways to save the planet than banning hunting. Ian Archer tells why he goes bow-hunting for whitetail deer in An ancient dance.
Posted by: The Editors March 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 3 — March 2009March 1st, 2009 In our cover article, Rank heresy, Owen Alexander takes “an irreverent look at four lionized modern artists.” In Under the weather, our page 2 feature, Londoner Gillian Wilce says that “the only thing certain about London’s climate is its uncertainty.” Ian Archer tells a story of fishing to get over a broken heart in A way back.
Posted by: The Editors February 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 2 — February 2009February 1st, 2009 The All-Music Issue In our cover article, Terry Ross recounts his history as the world’s only One-Man Audience for contemporary classical music. In our page two feature, Coda, Ian Archer describes the end of his career as a professional musician. In My career in music, Dean Suess recalls hilarious experiences singing at weddings and funerals.
Posted by: The Editors January 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 1 — January 2009January 1st, 2009 The Sixth Anniversary Issue In our cover article for this Sixth Anniversary Issue, Don’t look back, Terry Ross examines and cautions against a futile emotion: regret. In our page two feature, Three feet under, Leslie Russell recalls vividly and fondly a family feast. Ed Goldberg wishes Black Lamb and his editor well on the magazine’s birthday in L’chaim.
Posted by: The Editors December 2008 in Black LambVolume 6, Number 12 — December 2008December 1st, 2008 In our cover article for this issue, Looking ahead, Terry Ross acknowledges that although newspapers and libraries may soon be obsolete, some things will continue. In our page two feature, Burn, barrel, burn, Greg Roberts documents his own small contribution to global pollution. Toby Tompkins holds forth on the American bison in Fubbalo.
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