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Archive for October, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 29th, 2002 English novelist Henry Green (Loving, 1945) is born Henry Vincent Yorke near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Henry Green, b. October 29, 1905, d. 1973
Suggested Reading Novels Blindness, 1926. Living, 1929. Party Going, 1939. Caught, 1943. Loving, 1945. Back, 1946. Concluding, 1948. Nothing, 1950. Doting, 1952. Memoir Pack My Bag, 1940.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 17th, 2002 In 1903, American novelist Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts, 1933) is born in New York City.
Nathanael West’s premature death in an automobile accident cut short a career that might have given us more novels as strong as The Day of the Locust, his last one, and might not. West’s vision was a dark one, and it had undoubtedly been darkened further by his work in Hollywood, grinding out scripts for B-movies. His two good books — and Miss Lonelyhearts and Day are extremely good — end in apocalypse; it’s difficult to imagine how he would have gone on or what more he had to say. But we’ll never know. Suggested Reading Novels The Dream Life of Balso Snell, 1931. Miss Lonelyhearts, 1933. A Cool Million, 1934. The Day of the Locust. 1939.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 12th, 2002 COLUMBUS DAY … Mr. Parkhill opened the class with these ringing words: “Tonight, let us set aside our routine tasks for a while to consider the man whose – er – historic achievement the world will commemorate tomorrow.” Expectancy murmured its sibilant way across the room. “To this man,” Mr. Parkhill continued, “the United States – America – owes its very beginning. I’m sure you all know whom I mean, for he —” “Jawdge Vashington!” Miss Fanny Gidwitz promptly guessed. “No, no. Not George Washington — watch that ‘w,’ Miss Gidwitz. I refer to —” “Paul Rewere!” cried Oscar Trabish impetuously….
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 3rd, 2002 In 1925, American novelist Gore Vidal (Burr, 1973) is born in West Point, N.Y.
In his twenty-nine novels, six plays, many screenplays, and innumerable essays and non-fiction works, Vidal has made himself witness not only to his own times, but to the whole of American history. Immensely learned, witty, and trenchant, he emerges as the widest ranging American writer of the second half of the twentieth century, and perhaps the most important. Suggested Reading Novels Willilaw, 1946. The City and the Pillar, 1948. The Judgment of Paris, 1952. Messiah, 1954. Julian, 1964. Myra Breckinridge, 1968. Myron, 1975. Kalki, 1978. Creation, 1981. Duluth, 1983. Live from Golgotha, 1992. The Chronicles of Empire novels Washington, D.C., 1967. Burr, 1973. 1876, 1976. Lincoln, 1984. Empire, 1987. Hollywood, 1990. The Golden Age, 2000. Essays Rocking the Boat, 1962. Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship, 1969. Sex, Death and Money, 1969. Matters of Fact and of Fiction, 1977. Vidal in Venice, 1985. A View from the Diners Club, 1991. Screening History, 1992. The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, 1992. The American Presidency, 1998. Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings, 1999. The Last Empire, 2001. Memoir Palimpsest: A Memoir, 1995. Drama Visit to a Small Planet, 1957. The Best Man, 1960.
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