Posted on 07/18/2014 11:34:05 AM PDT by EveningStar
I had a professor at Troy who I think was kin to Capote tho I may be wrong. Anyway he thought Capote was amusing and he could imitate him really well.
He was from Monroeville, Alabama.
Not particularly or at all. I found Twain, Poe, Rand, Orwell, Bradbury, Heinlein, Chaucer, Shakespeare to have been some of my favorites. Poets other than Poe not at all. Biography of key figures in history like Franklin, Adams, Henry VIII, Churchill are good as well as the works of Churchill, and Paine. Everything from history of England, the Celts, the Pacific campaigns of WWII to America, The Roosevelt Myth, The Road to Serfdom, History of the Crusades, Operation Dark Heart, and Across Atlantic Ice-The origin of America’s Clovis Culture. There is one children’s book, The King, the Mice, and the Cheese which after many years I still enjoy reading from time to time.
My library of books and ebooks has varied greatly over the years.
When writers stoop to criticism, that is when their ego show through (like a searchlight!) As a rule the more pretentious provoke the most scathing repartee ! As for the criticism of Ms Rowling by Mr Bloom, I have read her, not him and I believe he would like to have her revenue. As well, Mr Shakespeare in his grave last better than Mr Shaw!
I am retiring in October and plan to read a lot. I’ll put that on my list.
Harold Bloom isn’t a writer of fiction. He’s a critic and scholar.
Thanks
That’s pretty neat. LOL
“JK Rowling? JK frikin’ Rowling!? I mean COME ON!
“[A] hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, “
Frankly I think Faulkner disqualifies himself on the subject with the European writer angle. Twain was the antidote to things European. Apples and oranges. See ‘Innocents Abroad’. Twain was a DISTINCTLY American humorist/writer.
That picture of Virginia Wolf is one of the screen savers on my Kindle reader. You are right - she is a real looker.
That's a good question. He lived off the laurels of "The Naked And The Dead" for decades. I tried to read some of his post-Dead novels, and they were tripe. His non-fiction stuff was better, but it appears his biggest interest was promoting himself.
. . . but for some reason she scares me.
All writers hate all other writers. Especially the successful ones.
The latest iteration of Popular Science is even worse than the new Road & Track. Both are run and written by "magazine" people, rather than science and car people.
In fact, those "magazine" people are borderline PC activists, especially at PopSci.
Thankfully, Popular Mechanics has not degraded quite as far.
Road & Track is working hard to be as snarky as Car & Driver. As annoying as David E. Davis' pontification could be, I miss the old R&T. Especially the writing of Peter Egan.
I really miss the old Sports Car Graphic.
What this says to me is that you should just write your stuff and let the chips fall.
Writers talking trash.
Some of them richly deserve it..
Yeah but Harper Lee’s greatest work was “In Cold Blood”.
“(Virginia Woolf) came from a family of beauties who left their mark on Victorian society as models for Pre-Raphaelite artists and early photographers, including her aunt Julia Margaret Cameron who was also a visitor to the Stephen household.”
“Virginia Woolf boasted to Vita Sackville-West of once going skinny-dipping with Rupert Brooke in a moonlit pool when they were in Cambridge together.”
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