The Palin Persuasion Nov 13, 2009
such towns as Galesburg, Monmouth, and Dixon--just the sorts of places responsible for one of the raging themes of American literature, the soul-murdering complacency of our provinces, without which the careers of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, and Willa Cather, to name just a few, would never have found glory. The best and brightest fled all our Galesburgs and Dixons, if they could, but [Reagan] was not among them. (CBS News -- Opinion)
Great (Overlooked) Books -- A Symposium Nov 5, 2009
Sherwood Anderson has mostly disappeared from cultural memory, and it is not likely that the novels he wrote after his 1919 collection, Winesburg, Ohio, will emerge from oblivion ... Sherwood Anderson s reputation faded. (The American Conservative)
India’s melting pot of paradoxes Oct 20, 2009
The town centers the action the way Winesburg, Ohio did for Sherwood Anderson and Aracataca did for Gabriel Garcia Mrquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is a colorful if impoverished backdrop, with its ancient fort, mosque, temple, and busy main thoroughfare, Umbrella Street, the commercial center of town. (Boston Globe)
Don Aucoin: Who's schooling whom? Sep 5, 2009
She read Gatsby, loved it, then raced through Catcher in the Rye, then grabbed Sherwood Anderson s Winesburg, Ohio off our bookshelf and began reading it. No mention of Good Will Hunting yet. (Boston Globe)
* [ SOFTCOVER: US ]: Cao Naiqians dark, raunchy vision of the Cultural Revolution Jul 12, 2009
Balcom makes comparisons with Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. All seemed set for a great read. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Lionel Trilling: A Modern Burke Jun 16, 2009
Theodore Dreiser, Trilling saw, had been admired by left populists because of, not in spite of, his simplifications and awkwardness, Sherwood Anderson for his sentimentality, and Alfred Kinsey for his reductive sense of sexuality. To counter these terrible simplifiers, Trilling proposed a moral and literary tradition. (The American Conservative)
Spring counterpart to fall Humanities Day in full bloom May 1, 2009
His work has been compared to Hemingway s novels, Sherwood Anderson s Winesburg, Ohio, and James Joyce s Dubliners. Though he s best known for his short stories, Dybek is also an accomplished poet. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
