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This Week in Literary HistoryMay 1st, 2008 English novelist H.E. (Herbert Ernest) Bates (The Darling Buds of May, 1958) is born in Rushden, Northamptonshire, 1905. H.E. Bates, b. May 16, 1905, d. 1974
Suggested Reading Novels The Two Sisters, 1925. Fair Stood the Wind for France, 1944. The Purple Plain, 1947. The Jacaranda Tree, 1949. The Distant Horns of Summer, 1967. The Larkin Novels The Darling Buds of May, 1958. A Breath of French Air, 1959. When the Green Woods Laugh, 1960. Oh! To Be in England, 1963. A Little of What You Fancy, 1970. Novellas The Nature of Love, 1953. Stories A Month by the Lake & Other Stories, 1959. The Best of H.E. Bates, 1963. The Fabulous Mrs V, 1964. Memoirs The Vanished World, 1969. The Blossoming World, 1971. The World in Ripeness, 1972.
Posted by: The Editors This month in Black LambVolume 6, Number 5 — May 2008May 1st, 2008 The Black Lamb Review of Books In our the cover story of our third annual Black Lamb Review of Books, Editor Terry Ross summarizes a rich issue focusing on biography and contends that travel books can often be considered biographical. In A beautiful mind Rebecca Owen appreciates mathematician G.H. Hardy’s elegant little apologia. William Bogert remembers seeing the late William F. Buckley, Jr. in action in An extraordinary man. Gillian Wilce characterizes polymath Alan Bennett’s Untold stories as a Box of delights.
Posted by: The Editors The Black Lamb Review of BooksMay 1st, 2008 BY TERRY ROSS For this annual book issue, our third consecutive Black Lamb Review of Books, I asked the contributors to focus on a particular genre of books, one that I thought everyone liked: biography (including autobiography). In the main, I was right, although one Black Lamb regular, Cate Garrison, actually said that she doesn’t much care for biographies, the first time I’ve ever heard this sentiment expressed. Certainly the other writers seemed to relish the opportunity. Rebecca Owen’s piece on G.H. Hardy’s A Mathematician’s Apology made me eager to read it; Rebecca very kindly sent me her copy. Bill Bogert chipped in a first-hand account of having seen the late William F. Buckley, Jr. in full debating mode, at which he excelled. Gillian Wilce writes from London on a man who has become a one-man cultural institution in England, playwright (and screenwriter and comedian) Alan Bennett. Greg Roberts is sad and a more than a little miffed to have to report that singer Willie Nelson ain’t no writer.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryMay 1st, 2008 American’s greatest literary critic, Edmund Wilson (Axel’s Castle, 1931), is born in Red Bank, N.J., 1895. Edmund Wilson, b. May 8, 1895, d. 1972
Suggested Reading Criticism & Cultural Studies Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, 1931. Travels in Two Democracies, 1936. The Triple Thinkers: Ten Essays on Literature, 1938. To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, 1940. The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists, 1941. The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature, 1941. The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It, 1943. Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, 1947. Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties, 1950. The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties, 1952. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, 1955. Red, Black, Blond and Olive. Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuñi, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel, 1956. Apologies to the Iroquois, 1960. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, 1962. The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest, 1963. O Canada: An American’s Notes on Canadian Culture, 1965. The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965, 1965. The Fruits of the MLA, 1968. A Window on Russia for the Use of Foreign Readers, 1972. The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters, 1973. Notebooks & Diaries The Thirties, 1980. The Forties, 1983. The Fifties, 1986. The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1993.
Posted by: The Editors Last month in Black LambVolume 6, Number 4 — April 2008April 1st, 2008 In our cover story, Familiar music, Cate Garrison tells of a friend who discovered late in life that she was Jewish and had two brothers. In Quixotic chocoatl, Leslie Russell uses our page 2 feature spot to wax eloquent on New World ambrosia. After a horrible school shooting in the U.S., Dan Peterson tells why such things don’t happen in Italy in School violence.
Posted by: The Editors Two months ago in Black LambVolume 6, Number 3 — March 2008March 1st, 2008 The All-Lies Issue In our cover story, Terry Ross admits to having been a liar and wonders if lying is not intrinsic in human expression. In our page 2 feature, The real thing, Leslie Russell extols the humble grandeur of real food. Our Country Lawyer, Bud Gardner, muses on how difficult it is to determine the truth. In The whole truth, Elizabeth Hart remembers little lies she told when a child. Cervine Kauffman, in The frugal truth, lists a number of surprisingly common and banal lies. Cate Garrison wonders Why? anyone bothers to lie. In Tulip-trading fools, Greg Roberts exposes the lie of modern art’s value. Dean Suess says, in A question of survival, that if a penitentiary prison’s mouth is moving, is is assumed he is lying.
Posted by: The Editors February 2008 in Black LambVolume 6, Number 2 — February 2008February 1st, 2008 In our cover story, Guatemala mon amour, Rebecca Owen offers a wistful appreciation of a troubled Central American country. Ed Goldberg, in our page 2 feature After the war, sets the record straight on abused American veterans. Dan Peterson reflects on a romantic occasion in Italy in Valentine’s Day. In Blonde, prefers gentlemen, Lorentz Lossius reunites with a beloved canine friend. Greg Roberts holds forth on the horrid situation for professional musicians in Hangin’ with Ed Gein.
Posted by: The Editors January 2008 in Black LambVolume 6, Number 1 — January 2008January 1st, 2008 In our cover story, Pelicans & roses, Rosemary McLeish offers Black Lamb a fifth anniversary present. In our page 2 feature, Dreams of avarice, Claire McLaughlin reflects on the work of British artist Damien Hirst. In Hearing the Farmer, Ed Goldberg indulges his lifelong interest in the sources of stories. Gillian Wilce muses on homes she didn’t choose in Houses not lived in. Travelling in Kurdish Turkey, Lorentz Lossius describes a long voyage in Night train. Writing from Italy, Dan Peterson admits to a serious gaffe in Coach screws up.
Posted by: The Editors December 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 12 — December 2007December 1st, 2007 In this, our largest issue ever, John Vergin tells a tale of Christmas in a small town in A Christmas Story. In our page 2 feature, Rebecca Owen reflects on the joys of pet ownership in Man’s Best Friend. A Spoiled Christmas tells why Cate Garrison’s holiday will be tainted by an evil man.
Posted by: The Editors October-November 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Numbers 10-11, October-November 2007October 1st, 2007 The All Suburbia Issue In our cover story, Terry Ross muses on what constitutes a suburb and remembers how many important things were absent from the suburban home of his youth. In our page 2 feature, Frankly Snobbish, Cate Garrison recalls how difficult it was for her to feel creative in suburbia. Gillian Wilce wonders whether suburbia is a state of mind in Not Suitable for Sidcup. City boy Ed Goldberg recalls his own youth in suburban Long Island in Train to Nowhere. In Norway, Lorentz Lossius goes Fishing in Suburbia.
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