“Not really” is the new “No.” Or so I thought before running across this encyclopedic account. While you (we) are at it (I?), consider the New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren cited in Times Literary Supplement, 9/23/11 (but earlier in a textbook, Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering, by James L. Christian, originally [...]
“Occasional, short, italicized paragraphs . . . with undercurrent of menace, gives . . . powerful and immediate tone,” says reviewer in Times Literary Supplement of The Mirador, dreamed memories of her mother. It struck home with me as what I’d like to do with my various books in the hopper, in the writing of [...]
Paul Elmer More on Emerson: Where [his essays] fail to reach the reader’s heart, it is not so much because they are fundamentally disjointed, as if made up of sentences jostled together like so many mutually repellent particles [he wrote from his journals]; as because from the manner of his composition Emerson often missed what [...]
Something literary: William Butler Yeats got a Nobel prize in 1924, and the British literary establishment objected. Ezra Pound said do it again, that is, elect another Irishman, namely the exile James Joyce, whose Ulysses had been stopped in both U.S. — 500 copies “seized and burnt in Washington” — and Britain — “another 500 [...]
