Arrested development Sep 6, 2009
Nearby Washington Square Park, celebrated by Henry James as a comfortable outdoor living room in the heart of Greenwich Village, was for Jacobs and all the denizens of the Village a respite of green and open space, with playgrounds for her three children, spontaneous outdoor concerts for folk singers including a young Bob Dylan, and soapbox orators. New York recently renovated the 10-acre greensward, moving the centerpiece fountain into alignment with the picture-postcard arch built to honor the... (Boston Globe)
In a sequel, Stieg Larsson’s ‘Girl’ is back but not prominently enough Sep 1, 2009
She makes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mrs. Peel from The Avengers look like Henry James characters. It s not, though, the violence that makes it interesting, but Salander s back story; the past is every bit as fascinating as the present, and the violence grows organically out of Salander s history. (Boston Globe)
A retired bachelor’s life of quiet comic desperation Aug 30, 2009
The difference in their temperaments is amusingly shown in Vicky s reaction to Sturgis s showing her a house in London once inhabited by Henry James (of whom Sturgis is an avid reader): She gave Henry James a passing glance. To Sturgis s mind, one feels, such incuriosity about the Master represents a grave flaw in her character. (Boston Globe)
The Frog Lake Massacre Aug 29, 2009
The Dominion Annual Register and review by Henry James Morgan (1886), p.138-139, 141. Challenging Frontiers: the Canadian West by Larry W. Falske, Beverly Jean Rasporich (2004)[2]-p. (Suite101.com)
Amit Chaudhuri explores desire, ambition, power in ‘The Immortals’ Aug 23, 2009
A. I ve never thought of myself in those terms although I am a fan of Henry James. What turned me into a writer was the sudden apprehension of the everyday; the fact that it could be looked at again and again. (Boston Globe)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
He wrote books, essays, articles, and reviews about America s most perceptive writers and thinkers - Henry James, Robert Frost, and Norman Mailer, among others - but he also explored such cultural phenomena as the American invasion of the Beatles. In Learning From the Beatles, an essay originally published in Partisan Review in 1967, Dr. Poirier was one of the first commentators to contend that the album Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band represented an intermingling of pop and serious... (Boston Globe)
High and Low Relief Aug 17, 2009
Henry James winced at the symbolism when the statue was unveiled, in 1903, twelve years after Sherman s death. The writer deplored all attempts, however glittering and golden, to confound destroyers with benefactors in this case, a man symbolizing the very breath of the Destroyer with embodied grace, in the form of a beautiful American girl, attending his business. (New Yorker)
Wharton’s ‘Xingu’ comes to Lenox Aug 14, 2009
It would take Wharton, her pal Henry James, and a team of lawyers to fully limn the intertwined histories of Shakespeare & Company and the Mount. From 1979 to 2001, Shakespeare & Company performed on four stages around the Mount, including in the drawing room. (Boston Globe)
Literary ghost stories Aug 2, 2009
The Victorian and Edwardian eras bring Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. And then, with the pulps, come H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather and others. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Our Buicks, ourselves Aug 2, 2009
It s a bedtime story for readers of Henry James, and throughout its pages one periodically hears the faint, wistful cry that haunts Strether in The Ambassadors (1903): Live all you can; it s a mistake not to. Wind is a rich book, grounded (as C.S. Lewis observed) in a sophisticated understanding of English social life. (Boston Globe)
Walking tour highlights Hudson's colorful past Aug 2, 2009
Henry James and Edith Wharton commented on it when they were here in 1904. The two famous writers ended up in Hudson, said Zimmerman, when their car broke down. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Another Great Short Story About a Cowardly Adulterer Jul 27, 2009
Think of Henry James' , in which the misdeeds of two hateful parents are filtered through the eyes of their uncomprehending daughter. Personally, I'd be happy never to let a creepy stranger or charming psychopath near a child in an American short story again. (Slate)
Novelist Sarah Waters takes a ghostly turn Jul 24, 2009
But Waters s eerie new novel, The Little Stranger, calls to mind Henry James and The Turn of the Screw more than Dickens. Set in post-World War II England, The Little Stranger is a ghost story, more or less, about the mysteries plaguing a dilapidated Georgian mansion and its residents, the Ayres family. (Boston Globe)
LOVE & MONEY Jul 20, 2009
Michael M. Thomas is here to supply all of your summertime fiction needs with this novel of highbrow smut (in the opening scene, no less) and vicious power plays that derives its title from a Freud quotation and is written in an upholstered mid-Atlantic style that would not have shamed Henry James. It's gossip for AmEx Black Card holders, 300 pages of Page Six (which makes several appearances in the story). (New York Post -- Opinions)
interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
"History," wrote Henry James in a 1910 letter to his amanuensis Theodora Bosanquet, "is strangely written." This casual aside could easily serve as the epigraph of Cynthia Ozick's superb new collection Dictation, which concerns itself with lost worlds evoked by languages -- languages which separate and obscure as readily as they bind. It can be risky to look for connective tissue between stories written years apart and published in magazines ranging from The Conradian to The New Yorker. (Harper's Magazine)
Book lovers trade tomes through Web sites Jun 24, 2009
Even Milner keeps her favorites from Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse or Henry James for herself. "I only lend books," she said, "to people who I know really well and I know where they live.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
No cash for dispatch Jun 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009. City doesn't set aside funds for police dispatch center in budget; county expected to take over. (The Herald-Palladium)
No comments posted. Jun 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009. No cash for dispatch. (The Herald-Palladium)
Lionel Trilling: A Modern Burke Jun 16, 2009
Next comes Henry James and The Princess Casamassima, a celebration of civilization and its moral dilemmas. James is a ubiquitous presence in Trilling s prose, which has a mandarin quality, its syntax reflecting paradox, irony, and complication. (The American Conservative)
Show or Tell Jun 1, 2009
D. thesis; for the project, Cassill made her read Henry James, who, in those days, was considered a universal writer s writer, even for a woman writing a novel about slavery and Reconstruction. Cassill wrote a standard textbook, Writing Fiction ; he was the editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, a position of power in the field; and, from 1966 until his retirement, in 1983, he taught creative writing at Brown, another program with a distinguished history. (New Yorker)
* [PAPERBACK: TAIWAN] Taipei-resident poet sweetly celebrates the call of the north May 31, 2009
A friend once said to me of Henry James that he was the kind of writer you plowed through simply because you knew that now and again you would come across some wonderful formulation ... And maybe they come up rather more often than the illuminations do in Henry James. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Murder charge brought in Eutawville shooting May 28, 2009
Napier Harris, 28, of 325 Gable Drive, has been charged with murder in connection with the May 15 death of Henry James Clark of 290 Dorchester Avenue, Orangeburg. Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said, I believe the preliminary part of the investigation concluded there might have been a self-defense scenario. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Life, from allegro to largo May 24, 2009
Jorge Luis Borges once described Henry James as a deeply strange artist who appears at first sight to be no more than a mundane novelist, less colorful than others. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Sheriff: Facts at present not sufficient for murder charge May 23, 2009
Henry James Clark, 32, of Dorchester Avenue, Orangeburg, died during the shoot-out just outside the Eutawville town limits. Police found Clark's body inside a vehicle parked outside Eutawville Town Hall. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Shooting victim was awaiting murder trial May 19, 2009
Henry James Clark of Dorchester Ave., Orangeburg, died Friday after being shot outside Eutawville. The 32-year-old Clark was out on bond while awaiting trial in connection with 2007 s fatal shooting of two men in Cross. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Despite Memorial day gas spike, forecast sees prices in $2 range May 17, 2009
I d glad it s not going up too high, said John Henry James of Orangeburg. He remembers last year when gas prices soared to more than $4 per gallon. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Pippin, a leader in interdisciplinary work, elected to oldest learned society May 15, 2009
Best known for his work on modern German philosophy reflected in such books as Hegel s Idealism, Henry James and Modern Moral Life, and his newest book, Hegel s Practical Philosophy much of Pippin s work seeks to understand modernity and the effects of modernization on cultural and ethical life. In addition to Pippin s work in modern German philosophy, his broad interests include contemporary continental philosophy, moral theory, and social and political philosophy. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
A naturally gloomy nature May 12, 2009
In a curious way, this strategy means each character gets to have his or her own life, not the shadow life of, say, Oscar Wilde or Henry James, she said. Another advantage is that none of the invented characters are a mixture of me and somebody. (Globe and Mail)
Summer Quotes May 12, 2009
"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon ... the two most beautiful words in the English language." ~Henry James. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. (Suite101.com)
"inside the Edwards marriage" May 11, 2009
I would have said it wasn't possible to love both Henry James and a house that could be a Marriott. "I wish my makeup looked like that," she says in greeting, having blown off putting hers on so we'd have more time to talk. (Slate)
Books about growing your own food May 10, 2009
Their 25 recommendations range from contemporary fare like "The Accidental Time Machine" by Joe Haldeman to classics such as "The Bostonians" by Henry James and Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," in which a Harvard freshman throws himself off the Larz Anderson Bridge. The two-hour, 10-mile tour begins at 10:15 a.m. Saturday at the plaza between the main library and high school. (Boston Globe)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 58, gay studies pioneer, theorist Apr 18, 2009
Dr. Sedgwick broke new ground when, drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of the French poststructuralist Michel Foucault, she began teasing out the hidden sociosexual subplots in writers like Charles Dickens and Henry James. In a 1983 essay on the Dickens novel "Our Mutual Friend," she drew attention to the homoerotic element in the obsessive relationship between Eugene Wrayburn and Bradley Headstone, rivals for the love of Lizzie Hexam but most engaged emotionally when facing off... (Boston Globe)
Murder, Mafia, and a mysterious woman Apr 13, 2009
Brunetti's wife, Paola, an academic, brings up Henry James, and Brunetti finds himself captivated by an odd-looking young woman who has apparently had way too much plastic surgery - not because of her looks, but because she can discuss Cicero. Soon after, this book takes on a heavier crime component than has been usual. (Boston Globe)
Woods burner Apr 12, 2009
While living in Manhattan, Thoreau met the likes of Horace Greeley, Henry James Sr., and the editors of some leading periodicals of the day, but no one would publish his writings. Discouraged, he returned to Concord in 1843 to live with his family, and he resumed working for his father's pencil making business. (Boston Globe)
Fresh Pond and Cambridge history Apr 11, 2009
Henry James called it "dear to the muses of youth." During the 19th century, a thriving local industry was the worldwide export of ice cut from Fresh Pond. Every day its environs attract hundreds of visitors: walkers, cyclists, joggers, birdwatchers, dog owners, golfers (who play at the nine-hole Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Municipal Golf Course). (Boston Globe)
Benton Harbor Library Director Fred Kirby says being a librarian is in his blood. He grew up a half-block away from a library and his mom was a librarian. John Madill / H-P staff Apr 8, 2009
As far as fiction, probably J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," and some things Henry James wrote in the 19th century. The best nonfiction book I've read is "Lincoln," by David Herbert Donald. (St. Joseph Herald-Pallidium, MI)
Is this painting worth $16 million Apr 1, 2009
Posted by: henry james on April 1, 2009 1:40 PM. if a cricketer can make 1. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Palm Beach 'Madness' isn't what you might expect Mar 30, 2009
Still, through the gutter and glitter of Palm Beach, Leamer longs to be compared with author Henry James as a tart social observer ... "A hundred years ago Henry James made the same writer's journey ..." However, the glittery squalor that he delves into makes it difficult for him to pull that off. (USA Today -- Money)
A-L Essential 1700s and 1800s Briti... Mar 22, 2009
Although an American writer, Henry James (1843-1916) spent much of his life in England dying in London, and he is famous for writing about the differences between the American mentality and the mentality of the British and Europeans ... A friend of Henry James, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is best known as the author of the adventure The Jungle Book (1894), which tells the story of a human baby raised by animals, causing the boy to be at home in the habitat of the jungle. (Suite101.com)
Redgrave actors span the generations Mar 20, 2009
His adaptation of Henry James' The Aspern Papers premiered in 1959 the same year he was knighted and was revived 25 years later with daughter Vanessa. CAUSE OF DEATH: APPRECIATION: PHOTO GALLERY. (USA Today -- Life)
Women's Work Is Never Done Mar 15, 2009
But as they begin to talk freely about the meaning of Nabokov, Henry James, Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the teacher must stand constant guard. Repression has narrowed women's ability to make both moral and aesthetic judgments. (Townhall.com)
Alumni Association inducts nine into Hall of Fame Mar 11, 2009
She has written several books about Woolson including one, which details correspondences she had with such renowned literary scholars as Henry James, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and William Dean Howells. While at CHS, Dean was a member of the National Honor Society and served as its secretary her senior year. (Chelmsford Independent, MA)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
(Henry James, despite being Edith Wharton's great friend, seems never to have missed a chance to savage a woman writer in print. Most important for the long haul, they edited the histories and surveys of American literature that shaped the canon, and they made no bones about their preferences. (Slate)
Click for Full Story Feb 24, 2009
"Three things in human life are important:the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third isto be kind." -- Henry James, American author (1843-1916). (Source: Associated Press). (KWTX.com, TX)
Tunkus legacy of compassion Feb 15, 2009
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The Middle Class in the Late 19th C... Feb 15, 2009
In the United States, the middle class registered its rejection of labor unionism and striker violence in the elections of 1894 and 1896, the latter referred to by Henry James as an outcome of revolution or rout. In many ways, the success of industrialization coincided with the expansion of an urbanized middle class that fed on growing consumerism, ultimately creating prosperous societies. (Suite101.com)
Photography: Walker Evans: From a simple hobby, a life's calling Feb 10, 2009
Evans traced the history of "lyric documentary" to Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings, forward through Palladio and Henry James to his hero Eug. ne Atget, the French photographer. (International Herald Tribune)
When nothing, happily, is as it seems Feb 10, 2009
I suspect Greenberg had been gorging on Henry James just before he sat down to write "The American Plan." One of James's enduring themes was the clash between romantic ideals and the hard truth of human corruption. The title character of "Becky Shaw" also has a literary antecedent, of course, in the ambitious Becky Sharp from Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." But Gionfriddo's Becky is very much her own many-faceted woman too. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Hedda, Get Your Gun Feb 9, 2009
Rickson s stage picture is startling, but it skews Ibsen s game what Henry James called the demure preservation of the appearance of the usual in which we see him juggle with difficulty and danger. The playwright s stage directions call for a bright, well-ordered drawing room. (New Yorker)
IN MY LIBRARY: KURT ANDERSEN Feb 8, 2009
Sunday, February 08, 2009 Last Update: 06:00 AM EST. Posted: 1:30 amFebruary 8, 2009. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Good Morning, Afghanistan Feb 8, 2009
Updike's 23 novels took on the "full weight of American social history," Gopnik writes, "tracking our experience from the parched Truman era to gray-and-white Eisenhower and beyond to smiling Reagan and shaky Carter and even sexy Ford." Updike, whom he terms one of the first writers to fully express himself since Henry James, tried to describe the "American attempt to fill the gap left by faith with the materials produced by mass culture" and attempted to set down on the page "all the sweetness... (Slate)
Writer Hortense Calisher dies at 97 Feb 7, 2009
Like Marcel Proust and Henry James, the writers to whom she was most often compared, Calisher composed in the thick, quantum rhythms of the mind. Her sentences were long, her language complex and her story lines often elusive. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
