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Archive for December, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 21st, 2002 In 1892, English author Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 1942) is born Cicily Isabel Fairfield in Streathem. Rebecca West, b. December 21, 1892, d. 1983
Suggested Reading Novels The Judge, 1922. Harriet Hume, 1929. The Thinking Reed, 1936. Critical Studies Henry James, 1916. D.H. Lawrence: An Elegy, 1930. Arnold Bennett Himself, 1931. Other Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 1941. The Meaning of Treason, 1947.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 17th, 2002 English novelist Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier, 1915) is born in Merton, Surrey, 1873. Ford Madox Ford, b. December 17, 1873, d. 1939
Suggested Reading Novels The Fifth Queen, 1906. An English Girl, 1907. Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, 1911. The Good Soldier, 1915. The Parade’s End novels Some Do Not, 1924. No More Parades, 1925. A Man Could Stand Up, 1926. The Last Post, 1928. Poetry Collected Poems, 1913. Collected Poems, 1936. Reminiscences Thus to Revisit, 1921. Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance, 1924. No Enemy, 1929. Return to Yesterday, 1931. It Was the Nightingale, 1933. Criticism, Studies, & Travel Ford Madox Brown, 1896. The Cinque Ports, 1900. Rossetti, 1902. Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1905. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1907. Henry James, 1913. Between St. Denis and St. George, 1915. A Mirror to France, 1926. The English Novel, 1926. Provence: from Minstrels to the Machine, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 11th, 2002 In 1922, American short story writer Grace Paley (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974) is born in New York City.
Grace Paley will perhaps not loom large in histories of late-twentieth-century American literature, because she wrote only in the short story genre, and wrote slowly. But what stories! Like Hemingway and Raymond Carver, she taught a generation how to make a piece of short fiction memorable, and her stories can be returned to time and again for the sheer delight they give in exuberant, witty, and wise writing. Suggested Reading Short stories The Little Disturbances of Man, 1959. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974. Later the Same Day, 1985. Essays Just As I Thought, 1998.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 3rd, 2002 In 1857, novelist Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, 1900) is born Josef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Berdichev, Polish Ukraine.
Conrad, born in Poland, has often been praised for his mastery of his second language, but in fact he wrote in a strange un-Engish. After a couple of notable books he published his so-called masterpiece, Lord Jim, in 1900, then needed help on three subsequent novels from Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford), who later said, “Conrad spent a day finding the mot juste and then killed it.” We confess to a weakness for The Nigger of the Narcissus, but then we’re soft on sea stories, which is probably why we tolerate Lord Jim insofar as we do. Suggested Reading Novels The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897. Lord Jim, 1900. Nostromo, 1904. The Secret Agent, 1907. Short stories & tales Typhoon, 1902. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902. The Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad, 1933.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Carol Wolfe wrote the popular Q&A column Ask Carol during Black Lamb’s first year of publication. She died in an automobile accident in December of 2003.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Clinton Wilson, a writer and drama fanatic, lives in Manhattan. His Black Lamb column is called Cosmopolitango.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Gillian Wilce, who lives in Bermondsey in London, has worked in the city all her life — as a mental health social worker, a secretary, an editor (including five years as Literary Editor of New Statesman), and finally a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She contributed to The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola and has in the past reviewed books for New Statesman, The British Journal of Psychotherapy, Fiction Magazine, and Winnicott Studies. (Entirely coincidentally the latter two publications no longer exist!) She presently divides her working time between psychotherapy and copy-editing. Her Black Lamb column is called London Pride.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Dean Suess is a professional church musician and vocal soloist who lives in Seattle. He was recently discharged from penitentiary after serving seven years on a felony count. His Black Lamb column is called Pen Man.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Stephen Starbuck, doting father of brilliant, willful Ada, muses occasionally on parenthood and nostalgic bits as he hurtles precipitously into a precocious dotage. And, despite his assertions to the contrary, he apparently did move 3,000 miles to live in Brooklyn. His Black Lamb column Just Visiting morphed into Dada-ism with the birth of his first child.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Steffen Silvis, a drama critic and prize-winning playwright, lives in Los Angeles.
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