This is the grave of Marcel Proust. Born in 1871 to a wealthy family, Proust was asthmatic and sickly. He grew up and became known as a difficult snob and social climber who a lot of people hated. He was a political conservative who spent...
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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.
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a thousand words, but a thousand words often create their own images. Poetry has long been...
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 As of today, Woody Guthrie's previously unpublished 1947 novel, House of Earth is available for us to purchase.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.
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and early 2000s resurgence was brilliant, his last novels were, uh, not very good. I had...
Although I do not have children, when I was integrated into the gigantic family of my in-laws, I was exposed to the American Girl Doll phenomenon. The dolls' little historical.
The great Italian novelist (though many of his novels take place in Portugal) is no more. Sad news. A writer worthy of the Nobel.
Guernica is publishing a Jose Saramago short story in two parts. Here is the first. There's not much left unpublished from the great writer I presume. This story is part of a collection of short stories soon to be published. After that, I doubt there...
Though I suppose this would get me fired in Arizona, I'll admit that I strategically punctuate my lesson plans with profanity. That guy in the back of the class who.
Very interesting Jeanette Winterson take on Henry Miller in the Times Book Review. I suppose my problem with Miller isn't that he was a misogynist per se. Philip Roth is.