Tag Archives: American literature
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Melanie Benson Taylor
It is a mystifying fact that the 1918-19 Spanish influenza pandemic—which infected one-third of the world’s population and killed between 50-100 million—inspired almost no works of American literature. Also puzzling: of these few, the three most significant and acclaimed were written by southerners. Virginia native Willa Cather’s One of Ours (1922), Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Katherine […]
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John Hay
“Isn’t this your moment?” ask my friends nowadays. “You’re a scholar of the apocalypse.” My work examines how American authors have written about the apocalypse and its aftermath, from the colonial period to the present. So I’m certainly feeling—writing this at my kitchen table during a “shelter-at-home” directive from the Governor of Nevada—that I’ve seen […]
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T. R. Johnson
New Orleans is never more lovely than in April. But this year, we’ll have no Jazz Fest – and we’ll have to get by without those rolling block parties we call second-line parades too; and without crawfish boils. Of course, April is the very height of our tourist season, but that entire industry has collapsed […]
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Ross Wilson
Ask the majority of the world’s inhabitants to close their eyes and imagine a city. They might picture skyscrapers, railroads, busy highways and throngs of people. Whilst they may think of cities near them, cities they may have visited or cities they have read of in novels and newspapers, they imagine New York. This is […]
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David Bergman
About disease, I am a fatalist. Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor; then ten years later, Parkinson’s Disease. In neither case could I have done anything to avoid getting ill. I didn’t smoke or drink. More exercise, better food, less tension would have done nothing. A recent book tells me I was […]
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Valerie Babb
My Bajan grandfather was a carpenter. He worked on the Panama Canal Zone where there were gold and silver payrolls (white employees were paid with a gold standard, blacks with a silver), gold and silver water fountains, all designed to replicate the white/colored segregationist divide of United States. Canal Zone practices forbade a black man […]
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Ross Wilson
New York: A Literary History is the result of a lifetime of reading books about the city and reading authors who made the city their home. From Stephen Crane, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Zora Neale Hurston, I was always moved by the authors and artists who use the metropolis as a scene to set […]
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Steven Belletto
Some sixty years after the appearance of their most famous books, the Beat Generation writers are certainly not hurting for fans or publicity. In 2001, the literary world was rocked by the sale of the original “scroll” manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (the one he had written in three weeks on a 120-foot […]
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Melanie Benson Taylor
It is a mystifying fact that the 1918-19 Spanish influenza pandemic—which infected one-third of the world’s population and killed between 50-100 million—inspired almost no works of American literature. Also puzzling: of these few, the three most significant and acclaimed were written by southerners. Virginia native Willa Cather’s One of Ours (1922), Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Katherine […]
Read More
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John Hay
“Isn’t this your moment?” ask my friends nowadays. “You’re a scholar of the apocalypse.” My work examines how American authors have written about the apocalypse and its aftermath, from the colonial period to the present. So I’m certainly feeling—writing this at my kitchen table during a “shelter-at-home” directive from the Governor of Nevada—that I’ve seen […]
Read More
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T. R. Johnson
New Orleans is never more lovely than in April. But this year, we’ll have no Jazz Fest – and we’ll have to get by without those rolling block parties we call second-line parades too; and without crawfish boils. Of course, April is the very height of our tourist season, but that entire industry has collapsed […]
Read More
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Ross Wilson
Ask the majority of the world’s inhabitants to close their eyes and imagine a city. They might picture skyscrapers, railroads, busy highways and throngs of people. Whilst they may think of cities near them, cities they may have visited or cities they have read of in novels and newspapers, they imagine New York. This is […]
Read More
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David Bergman
About disease, I am a fatalist. Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor; then ten years later, Parkinson’s Disease. In neither case could I have done anything to avoid getting ill. I didn’t smoke or drink. More exercise, better food, less tension would have done nothing. A recent book tells me I was […]
Read More
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Valerie Babb
My Bajan grandfather was a carpenter. He worked on the Panama Canal Zone where there were gold and silver payrolls (white employees were paid with a gold standard, blacks with a silver), gold and silver water fountains, all designed to replicate the white/colored segregationist divide of United States. Canal Zone practices forbade a black man […]
Read More
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Ross Wilson
New York: A Literary History is the result of a lifetime of reading books about the city and reading authors who made the city their home. From Stephen Crane, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Zora Neale Hurston, I was always moved by the authors and artists who use the metropolis as a scene to set […]
Read More
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Steven Belletto
Some sixty years after the appearance of their most famous books, the Beat Generation writers are certainly not hurting for fans or publicity. In 2001, the literary world was rocked by the sale of the original “scroll” manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (the one he had written in three weeks on a 120-foot […]
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