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Archive for January, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 31st, 2002 In 1893, British memoirist and travel writer Freya Stark (Alexander’s Path, 1958) is born in Paris. Freya Stark, b. January 31, 1893, d. 1993
Suggested Reading Travel The Valleys of the Assassins, 1934. The Southern Gates of Arabia, 1936. A Winter in Arabia, 1940. Letters from Syria, 1942. Perseus in the Wind, 1948. Alexander’s Path, 1958. The Minaret of Djam, 1970. Autobiography Beyond Euphrates, 1951. The Coast of Incense, 1953. Dust in the Lion’s Paw, 1961.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 31st, 2002 American short story writer and novelist John O’Hara (Appointment in Samarra, 1934) is born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pa.
O’Hara began his career as a short story writer; he published more than 200 in The New Yorker, starting in 1928. Brendan Gill thought him “among the greatest short-story writers in English.†He successfully turned his hand to novels with Appointment in Samarra in 1934, but thereafter his standing among critics fell, partly due to his defensive, abrasive personality. A master all the same. Suggested Reading Short stories 14 collections, 1935-74. Novels Appointment in Samarra, 1934. BUtterfield 8, 1935. Pal Joey, 1940. Ten North Frederick, 1955.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 31st, 2002 In 1923, American novelist Norman Mailer (The Naked and the Dead, 1948) is born in Long Branch, N.J.
Why did Norman Mailer seem like the Ur-American writer? Because he actually believed in the Great American Novel? Yes. Because he carried on Hemingway’s tradition of the novelist as pugilist, always involved in a fistfight with Shakespeare or Turgenev or Twain (or one of his six wives)? Yes. Because he was brash and ambitious, like a gauche American businessman buying up companies overseas? Yes. Because he consistently brandished his primitive views on sexuality and never could write a credible female character? Most assuredly, yes. And yet, and yet…. Mailer’s novels started pretty well and got steadily worse, but his non-fiction writing was always engaged, pungent, and thought-provoking. If his constant confessional impulse somtimes got tiring, his mind never did, even at its most outrageous. For more than fifty years he confronted the big themes of his time and shed light on them. Mailer was frequently been implausible, but he was never boring. Suggested Reading Fiction and non-fiction The Naked and the Dead, 1948. Barbary Shore, 1951. The Deer Park, 1955. The White Negro, 1957. Advertisements for Myself, 1959. The Presidential Papers, 1963. An American Dream, 1964. Cannibals and Christians, 1966. Why Are We in Vietnam?, 1967. The Armies of the Night, 1968. Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 1969. A Fire on the Moon, 1970. The Prisoner of Sex, 1971. Existential Errands, 1972. St. George and the Godfather, 1972. Marilyn, 1973. The Fight, 1975. Some Honorable Men, 1976. Genius and Lust, 1976. The Transit of Narcissus, 1978. The Executioner’s Song, 1979. Of Women and Their Elegance, 1980. Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, 1980. Pieces and Pontifications, 1982. Ancient Evenings, 1983. Tough Guys Don’t Dance, 1983. Harlot’s Ghost, 1991. Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man, 1996. Oswald’s Tale, 1996. The Gospel According to the Son, 1997. The Time of Our Time, 1998. Films Beyond the Law, 1968. Maidstone, 1969. Wild 90, 1969. Tough Guys Don’t Dance, 1987. Ringside, 1997.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 27th, 2002 Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1959) is born in 1931 in Montréal. Mordecai Richler, b. January 27, 1931, d. 2001
Suggested Reading Novels The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1959. Cocksure, 1968. The Street, 1969. St. Urbain’s Horseman, 1971. Joshua Then and Now, 1980. Travel Images of Spain, 1977. This Year in Jerusalem, 1994. Nonfiction On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It, 2001.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 27th, 2002 Mathematician and author Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865) is born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Daresbury, Cheshire, 1832. Lewis Carroll, b. January 27, 1832, d. 1898
Suggested Reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865. Bruno’s Revenge, 1867. Phantasmagoria: And Other Poems, 1869. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871. A Tangled Tale, 1885. Sylvie and Bruno, 1889. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893. The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, 1960. The Hunting of the Snark, 1975.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 25th, 2002 Anglo-Irish playwright, short story writer, and novelist W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, 1915) is born in 1874 at the British Embassy in Paris. W. Somerset Maugham, b. January 25, 1874, d. 1965
Suggested Reading Novels Mrs Craddock, 1902. Of Human Bondage, 1915. The Moon and Sixpence, 1919. Cakes and Ale, 1930. The Razor’s Edge, 1944. Short stories The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, 1951. Essays & Memoirs The Summing Up, 1938. Books and You, 1940. Strictly Personal, 1941 Great Novelists and Their Novels, 1948. A Writer’s Notebook, 1949. The Partial View, 1954. Points of View, 1958. Essays on Literature, 1987. Travel On a Chinese Screen, 1922. The Gentleman in the Parlour. A record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong, 1930. Don Fernando, or, Variations on some Spanish themes, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 25th, 2002 Irish novelist J.G. (James Gordon) Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur, 1973) is born in Liverpool in 1935. J.G Farrell, b. January 25, 1935, d. 1979
Suggested Reading Novels Troubles, 1970. The Siege of Krishnapur, 1973. The Singapore Grip, 1978.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 25th, 2002 Russian playwright Anton Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard, 1904) is born in Taganrog, 1860. Anton Chekhov, b. January 29, 1860, d. 1904
Suggested Reading Plays The Seagull, 1896. Uncle Vanya, 1899-1900. The Three Sisters, 1901. The Cherry Orchard, 1904. Stories (dates of English publication) The Darling and Other Stories, 1916. The Duel and Other Stories, 1916. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, 1917. The Party and Other Stories, 1917. The Wife and Other Stories, 1918. The Witch and Other Stories, 1918. The Bishop and Other Stories, 1919. The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, 1920. The Horse Stealers and Other Stories, 1921. The Schoolmaster and Other Stories, 1921. The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories, 1922. Love and Other Stories, 1922.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 25th, 2002 Novelist and future Bloomsberry Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, 1925) is born in South London in 1882, daughter of the famous literary intellectual Leslie Stephen. Virginia Woolf, b. January 25, 1882, d. 1941
Suggested Reading Novels The Voyage Out, 1915. Night and Day, 1919. Jacob’s Room, 1922. Mrs Dalloway, 1925. To the Lighthouse, 1927. Orlando: A Biography, 1928. The Waves, 1931. Flush: A Biography, 1933. The Years, 1937. Between the Acts, 1941. Other The Common Reader, 1925. Roger Fry: A Biography, 1940. Collected Essays, 1966-67. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vols. I-V, 1984.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 24th, 2002 American novelist Edith Newbold Jones Wharton (The Age of Innocence, 1920) is born in New York City in 1862. Edith Wharton, b. January 24, 1862, d. 1937
Suggested Reading Novels The House of Mirth, 1905. Ethan Frome, 1911. The Custom of the Country, 1913. The Age of Innocence, 1920. Short stories Twelve collections, 1899-1937. Non-fiction A Motor-flight Through France, 1908. French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919. In Morocco, 1920. The Writing of Fiction, 1925. Autobiography A Backward Glance, 1934.
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