Writers Wednesday: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Click Here to Read:  George Orwell Reviews We, the Russian Dystopian Novel That Noam Chomsky Considers “More Perceptive” Than Brave New World & 1984 by Josh Jones on the Open Culture website on June 28th, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Freedom and Happiness (Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin)  on the Orwell  Prize website.

Click Here to Read: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A dystopian novel for the 21st century by Michael Brendan Dougherty on the Week.com website on March 18, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A dystopian novel for the 21st century by Michael Brendan Dougherty on the Week website on March 18, 2014. Continue reading Writers Wednesday: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Writers Wednesday: T.H. White

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Click Here to Read:  Once and Future By Sadie Stein in the Paris Review on October 24, 2014

Click Here to Read:  The Once and Future King by T.H. White, book of a lifetime: The beauty and sadness of life: White’s book delivered Robert Irwin from what felt like prison by Robert Irwin on the Idependent website on May 28, 2015. Continue reading Writers Wednesday: T.H. White

Writer’s Wedmesday: e e cummings

Click Here to Read:  e e  cummings on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  e e  cummings on the poets.org website.

Click Here to Read: The Rebellion of E.E. Cummings: The poet’s artful reaction against his father–and his alma mater
by Adam Krirsch on the Harvard Magazine website in the MARCH-APRIL 2005.

Click Here to Read: A Lost E.E. Cummings Poem Discovered by James Dempsey on the Awl.com website on May 25, 2011. Continue reading Writer’s Wedmesday: e e cummings

Writer’s Wednesday: Joseph Conrad

Click Here to Read: Joseph Conrad on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  The Best Joseph Conrad Novels on the Interesting Literature website on May 29, 2015.

Click Here to Read:  Where Did Kurtz Come From?: A new theory on the origins of the legendary character from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness By Matthew Pearl on the Slate website on .April 29 2015.

Click Here to Read:  With Conrad on the Congo River: What counts as progress? I traveled to Africa to see what has, and hasn’t, changed since the author’s visit over a century ago By Maya Jasanoff in The New York Times on August 18, 2017.

Click Here to Read: The moral agent: What he wants us to see is: the lot. Not one side or another, but the whole shooting match A Polish immigrant, cabin boy and gunrunner, Joseph Conrad wrote action-packed adventure stories, which were also modernist classics. Giles Foden celebrates an enduring master on the 150th anniversary of his birth by Giles Foden on the Guardian Website on December 1, 2007. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Joseph Conrad

Writer’s Wednesday: Jessica Mitford

Click Here to Read:  Jessica Mitford on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:   The Woman who forced us to look death in the face. In the 1960s, British aristocrat Jessica Mitford wrote a best-seller on the funeral industry’s practices. Twenty years after her death, she can still teach us how to handle mortality by David Robson on the BBC website on July 21, 2016,

Click Here to Read:   The Indomitable Jessica Mitford: Articles by and about the muckraking journalist make clear that her name is synonymous with far more than cheap funerals by Molly Finnigan in the Atlantic Weekly in the October 2006 Issue. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Jessica Mitford

Writer’s Wednesday: Stephen Vincent Benét

Click Here to Read: Stephen Vincent Benét on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) on the Poetry Foundation website.

Click Here to Read:  ‘John Brown’s Body’ – Stephen Vincent Benet and Civil War Memory BY Gordon Berg on the History Net website.
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Click Here to Read:  The Selected Works of  Stephen Vincent Benet Volume 1: Poetry.

Click Here to Read:   The Selected Works of  Stephen Vincent Benet Volume 2: Prose.

Click Here to Read:  The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét on the Project Gutenberg website.

Click Here to Read:  Stephen Vincent Benet in the New Yorker.

Click Here to Read:   Stephen Vincent Benét on the Wikiquote Website.

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Writer’s Wednesday: Edith Sitwell

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Click Here to Read: Edith Sitwell 1887–1964 on the Poetry Foundation website.

Click Here to Read: Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene – review : Can a biography of Sitwell match the drama of her life, asks Alexandra Harris on the Guardian website on March 4, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Edith Sitwell, eccentric genius: A new biography of the avant garde poet Edith Sitwell is applauded by her great-nephew William Sitwell
on the Telegraph website on March 11, 2011. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Edith Sitwell

Writer’s Wednesday: Mark Twain

Click Here to Read:  My Front Page:  Mark Twain.

Click Here to Read: Mark Twain, A Film by Ken Burns on the PBS.org website.

Click Here to Read: Mark Twain is Dead at 74 in the New York Times on April 21, 1910.

Click Here to Read:  Mark Twain’s Eternal Chatter By Ben Tarnoff in the New Yorker on November 13, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  The 10 Best Mark Twain Books By Harry L. Katz on the Publisher’s Weekly website on October 17, 2014. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Mark Twain

Writer’s Wednesday: Vivian Gornick

Click Here to Read:  Vivian Gornick on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:   Vivian Gornick, The Art of Memoir No. 2, Interviewed by Elaine Blair in the Paris Review I ISSUE 211, WINTER 2014

Click Here to Read:  Vivian Gornick: ‘Most people who are writing memoirs are not writers’: Now 79, the writer has a new memoir out, and has firm views on both that form and her other lifelong passion, feminism by Michelle Dean on the Guardian website on May 24, 2015.

Click Here to Read: When Communism Inspired Americans by Vivian Gornick in The New York Times on April 29, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Vivian Gornick’s Voice By Michelle Orange in the New Yorker on May 29, 2015. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Vivian Gornick

Writer’s Wednesday: Margaret Atwood

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Click Here to Read: Margaret Atwood, The Prophet of Dystopia: Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real By Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker in the April 17, 2017 Issue.

Click Here to Read: Margaret Atwood on the Poetry Foundation website.

Click Here to Read: Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump By Margaret Atwood in The New York Times on March 10, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction No. 121, Interviewed by Mary Morris in the Paris Review Issue 117, Winter 1990. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Margaret Atwood