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Archive for July, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 29th, 2002 Immortal American journalist and novelist Don Marquis (archy and mehitabel, 1927) is born in 1878 in Walnut, Ill.
An indefatigable writer of stories, poems, and plays, Marquis made his name early in the twentieth century with humorous newspaper columns in first The New York Sun and then the Herald Tribune. His place in history, however, was insured with the publication of archy and mehitabel in 1930 and its companion books in the years to follow. The stories of the cockroach author archy and his pal mehitabel, a down-at-the-heels lady cat, are as fresh today as when they were written. Be sure to get copies with the original illustrations by George Herriman. Suggested Reading archy and mehitabel, 1930. archy s life of mehitabel, 1933. archy does his part, 1935. the lives and times of archy and mehitabel, 1943.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 26th, 2002 Irish genius and playwright George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, 1903) is born in Dublin, 1856. In 1925 he will win the Nobel Prize for literature. George Bernard Shaw, b. July 26, 1856, d. 1950
Suggested Reading Plays Arms and the Man, 1894. Candida, 1897. The Devil’s Disciple, 1897. Captain Brassbound’s Confession, 1900. Caesar and Cleopatra, 1901. Mrs Warren’s Profession, 1902. Man and Superman, 1903. John Bull’s Other Island, 1904. Major Barbara, 1905. The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1906. Misalliance, 1910. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, 1910. Androcles and the Lion, 1913. Pygmalion, 1913. Heartbreak House, 1919. Back to Methuselah, 1921. Saint Joan, 1923. The Apple Cart, 1929. Too True to Be Good, 1932. Essays & Studies The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891. The Impossibilities of Anarchism, 1893. The Sanity of Art, 1895. The Perfect Wagnerite, 1898. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, 1906. Common Sense about the War, 1914. The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928. Major Critical Essays, 1930. Music in London 1890-1894, 1930. Essays in Fabian Socialism, 1932. Pen Portraits and Reviews, 1932. London Music in 1888-1889, 1937. Autobiography Shaw Gives Himself Away, 1939. Sixteen Self Sketches, 1949. Letters Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence, 1952.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 21st, 2002 Canadian polymath and media expert Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964) is born in Edmonton, Alberta, 1911. Marshall McLuhan, b. July 21, 1911, d. 1980
Suggested Reading Books The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, 1951. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, 1962. Understanding Media: Extensions of Man, 1964. Voices of Literature, 1964. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, 1967. War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962, 1969. From Cliché to Archetype, 1970.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 21st, 2002 In 1899, American novelist Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, 1926) is born in Oak Park, Ill.
Hemingway lived just long enough to parody himself and call into question his undeniable gifts, which would never have been challenged if he had stopped writing after The Sun Also Rises, In Our Time, A Farewell to Arms, and the wonderful short stories. It’s not his fault that those who copied him couldn’t do it as well as he could. An imperishable master. Suggested Reading Novels The Torrents of Spring, 1926. The Sun Also Rises, 1926. A Farewell to Arms, 1929. To Have and Have Not, 1937. For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940. Across the River and into the Trees, 1950. The Old Man and Sea, 1952. Short Stories Three Stories & Ten Poems, 1923. In Our Time, 1924. Men Without Women, 1927. Winner Take Nothing, 1933. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories, 1938. Non-fiction Death in the Afternoon, 1932. Green Hills of Africa, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 14th, 2002 In 1904, American Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (The Family Moskat, 1950) is born Yitskhek Bashyevis Zinger in Radzymin, Poland.
Singer enjoyed a long career as the premier writer of his time in the dying Yiddish language, for which he was recognized in 1978 with a Nobel Prize. Whether in his novels, which include family chronicles written late in his career, or in his incomparable short stories, Singer is a born storyteller: vivid, earthy, sexy, magical. His frank memoirs make wonderful reading, as do his books for children. Suggested Reading Novels The Family Moskat, 1950. In My Father’s Court, 1966. The Manor, 1967. The Estate, 1969. The Golem, 1983. Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, 1983. Short stories Gimpel the Fool, 1953. The Spinoza of Market Street, 1961. A Friend of Kafka, 1970. A Crown of Feathers, 1973. Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Collected Stories, 1982. Memoirs A Little Boy in Search of God: Mysticism in a Personal Light, 1976. A Young Man in Search of Love, 1978. Lost in America, 1981. Children’s books When Schlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, 1968. A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, 1969. Why Noah Chose the Dove, 1974. Stories for Children, 1986.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 8th, 2002 English novelist Alec Waugh (Hot Countries, 1930), elder brother of Evelyn, is born in Hampstead, London, in 1898. Alec Waugh, b. July 8, 1898, d. 1981
Suggested Reading Novels The Loom of Youth, 1917. Kept, 1925. The Balliols, 1934. Island in the Sun, 1956. Fuel for the Flame, 1960. The Mule on the Minaret, 1965. The Fatal Gift, 1973. Memoirs Thirteen Such Years, 1932. The Early Years of Alec Waugh, 1962. My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles, 1967. The Best Wine Last, 1978. Travel Hot Countries, 1930. The Sugar Islands, 1949. Other In Praise of Wine, 1959.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 8th, 2002 In 1899, English author G.B. (Gerard Basil) Edwards (The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, 1981) is born in Dalwood, East Devon.
Gerald Basil Edwards is a one-novel writer, and even that was published against his wishes. But what a wonderful novel! The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, which appeared five years after the author’s death, is a rich throwback to an earlier age of novel-writing, with vivid characters, a million interrelated stories, and, coincidentally, one of our only fictional portraits of the isle of Guernsey. This is one of our very favorite books of all time. Suggested Reading Novel The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, 1981.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 3rd, 2002 American memoirist and food writer M.F.K. Fisher (How to Cook a Wolf, 1942) is born in 1908 in Albion, Mich. M.F.K. Fisher, b. July 3, 1908, d. 1992
Suggested Reading Food & Recollections Serve it Forth, 1937. Consider the Oyster, 1941. How to Cook a Wolf, 1942. The Gastonomical Me, 1943. Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets, 1946. Not Now But Now, 1947. An Alphabet for Gourmets, 1949. A Cordiall Water, 1961. The Story of Wine in California, 1962. Map of Another Town, 1964. The Cooking of Provincial France, 1968. With Bold Knife and Fork, 1969. Among Friends, 1970. A Considerable Town, 1978. As They Were, 1982. Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1941, 1993. Stories Sister Age, 1983. Translation The Physiology of Taste, by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1949.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryJuly 3rd, 2002 In 1883, Czech short story writer and novelist Franz Kafka (The Trial, 1925) is born in Prague.
Although Kafka is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and gifted of all the crazy writers the world has seen, he remains a crazy writer: depressive to the point of imbalance, clinically saturnine, terminally pessimistic. His genius is in finding metaphors for his gloom — a trial, a castle, a man-become-beetle — which in turn elevate his tales to the status of parables and lend them an eerie aura of clairvoyance. Suggested Reading Novels The Trial, 1925. The Castle, 1926. Amerika, 1927. Stories Metamorphosis, 1915. The Judgment, 1916. In the Penal Colony, 1919. The Great Wall of China, 1931. Parables, 1947. Diaries The Diaries of Franz Kafka, ed. by Max Brod, 1948-49.
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