Mad Men, Season 3 Oct 13, 2009
In the past, we've witnessed Don's efforts to keep up with the timessmoking marijuana with his Village girlfriend in Season 1, reading Frank O'Hara in Season 2and he seems more enlightened about race than some of his colleagues. As we've discussed previously, he chatted up a black waiter in the pilot, and this season he expressed revulsion at Roger's blackface routine. (Slate)
Tony Hoagland May 22, 2009
In interviews, he has talked about locating himself as a poet somewhere between the confessional style of Sharon Olds and the social mode of Frank O'Hara and the rest of the New York school, saying he started from the former and aims toward the latter. Artistic Approach. (Suite101.com)
US WindForce calls Pinnacle a favorable spot Apr 8, 2009
Keyser resident Frank O'Hara, a member of the community advisory panel who opposes the Pinnacle project, disputed Henthorn's findings. He distributed a release from the Allegheny Front Alliance a citizens' group opposed to wind projects in the Appalachians that questioned the impact of the project on a number of rare species, including eagles. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
Details in new biography obscure the full Cheever Mar 12, 2009
Gooch also is the author of City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara. By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY In this age of uninhibited hookups and subprime mortgages, it's no surprise that the tightly girdled world of the sexually repressed but economically exuberant 1950s and early '60s intrigues us. (USA Today -- Life)
Flannery O'Connor -- quiet life, disturbing fiction Mar 9, 2009
"One hundred years later, Flannery O'Connor, like Hawthorne, grounding her strange fiction in her homeland, the South, felt a kinship with the Yankee writer.Speaking on the topic "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" in 1960, O'Connor cited Hawthorne for his ability to raise fiction from the ordinariness of life and "steer it in the direction of poetry. "For both writers, the poetry came from God, but different ones: Hawthorne's was a Calvinist creation, O'Connor's a Roman Catholic... (Sioux City Journal)
The habit of seeing Mar 1, 2009
Gooch, whose previous biography was of the poet Frank O'Hara, is also challenged by his subject's circumspection. At times, as though confounded by the paucity of available revelations, Gooch resorts to irrelevant architectural descriptions of buildings where O'Connor lived or accounts of the weather. (Boston Globe)
Book review: "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor Feb 28, 2009
The author of "City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara," he would seem a curious choice to address the theological tragicomic thickets of her work and brave the vast repository of O'Connoriana. The arty world of O'Hara - which Gooch describes as a long "incestuous fevered party" - urbane, wild, famous - is a galaxy removed from O'Connor's. (International Herald Tribune)
Southern literature's strange bird Feb 25, 2009
Gooch, who also penned a biography about Frank O'Hara titled "City Poet," built a day-by-day timeline of O'Connor's life and was able to plug in many details about her life through the prolific collection of letters shared between her and close friend Elizabeth "Betty" Hester. The letters were sealed for 20 years and opened to researchers for the first time in May 2007 at Emory University, where they're housed. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Vicious image is in rehab Feb 24, 2009
Here is one clue: If you can't be interesting, the poet Frank O'Hara observed, at least you can be a legend. (). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
