Category Archives: Literature

Janet Malcolm writes: * Tolstoy was obviously well acquainted with the guard who stops us at the border of sleep and awakening and confiscates the brilliant, dangerous spoils of our nighttime creations. The capacity to recreate these fictions in the … Continue reading →

Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138437 Where Do Journalists Come From? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=137084 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Krim The American Novel Made Us https://www.cwanderson.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Tom-Wolfe-Gives-an-Eyewitness-Report-of-the-Birth-of-The-New-Journalism-New-York-Magazine.pdf

Frederick Crews writes: O’Connor had no cause to disprize university writing programs, for she herself, despite the marked individuality of her work, was the first prominent American author to have been significantly shaped by one. Scholars who examine her early … Continue reading →

James Atlas writes in 2000: * A sickly child, afflicted with respiratory ailments, he was his mother’s favorite; she treated him like an invalid. * It was in temperament that Bellow diverged from the family line. He was the designated … Continue reading →

Here are some excerpts from this 2008 book: * “I realized it was because he did not care if he used the same adjective three times in three consecutive sentences. When you read one of his books, you realize what … Continue reading →