I recently returned to Nabokov for the first time in a decade, reading Ada or Ardor, which is a wonderful and underrated book. In many ways, it is a companion.
This is the grave of Albert Murray. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, Murray attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated in 1939. He started a graduate program at the University of.
This the grave of John O'Hara. Born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to a well-off Irish-American family, O'Hara was a bit of an outsider in the elite circles his family.
The great writer and Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul has died. Naipaul could be controversial and I sometimes thought his portrayals of non-whites could actually be near-racist themselves, especially the.
This is the grave of Bernard Malamud. Born in 1914 in Brooklyn, Malamud graduated from City College in 1936 and received a master's degree from Columbia in 1942. Beginning in.
Its May 25th, you hoopy froods! The day we celebrate British author Douglas Adams and his magnum opus Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Likely everyone will be talking about the importance of.
Wow. As of today, Woody Guthrie's previously unpublished 1947 novel, House of Earth is available for us to purchase. Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of.
Labor Notes has an interesting survey of working-class literature, asking organizers and activists about their favorite class-conscious novels. Admittedly, when I became a professor I stopped reading novels. This is.
