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The Quest for D.H. Lawrence
… my Hemingway was going through the press—the editor seemed comatose, the lawyer constantly broke his word and delayed … letters stated that Lady Cynthia Asquith’s son Michael had died in 1960. But I had a hunch he might still be alive and … Lawrence and died in a mental institution at the age of 26. This information enabled me to show that in “The …
John Updike: A Literary Spider
… of hope, discouragement, and liberation, his childhood becomes the text which he earnestly studies for clues to who he is and what he should do and how he … carries the day; he wins the story hands down. Joan gets no points in the reader’s heart, despite the fact that she is …
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Jordan
… exploits, my hero-worship of him that verged always uncomfortably close to idolization, and thus inevitably tinged … moment of his life confined in plexiglass. A boy who would die unless ingenious doctors and machines kept him separate … my father’s voice performed down there in the South as unselfconsciously as birds sing or birds shit, Daddy, I heard you …
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Tent Revival
… with the change stashed in my door handle. This part of the Commonwealth might be “Dew Country” compared to elsewhere … that “remote” didn’t just apply to developing nations—it also described his own backyard. And it was a big backyard. … as quickly, and they can take less time and fewer ingredients to prepare. But is all this really endemic to …
The Post-Information Society
… the year 2080—they may not carry us onto the reefs and shoals of a new social order which is much less diverse than … time. The Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer of the Pleistocene becomes in turn the farmer, the factory worker and, in our own … decision-making positions. As the British Sunday Times points out: The power and habits of men were attuned to a …
A Major Biography of A Major (?) Poet
… Edmund Wilson in 1950 counseled Arthur Mizener, who was completing his biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The … because the biographer became too fascinated by facts. Then also legends present a problem. The more colorful the … made them “is,” alive as contrasted to the “Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” or to salesmen or …
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