Word: cather
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...side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with the writing of Willa Cather, whom they should reread. Willa Cather knew how hard life could be in Ella Beecher country, but she also knew its beauty and could record what the hearts and spirits of its Ellas were speaking. The Narrow Covering deals with little except how they pursed their lips...
...Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart Set (1914-23) and the old American Mercury (1924-33). He took out after U.S. criticism, which he said "smells of the pulpit, the chautauqua, the schoolroom...
...outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't go Home Again, and, more recently, John Brooks's A Pride of Lions. Perhaps no other literature is filled with so many revisited home towns as the American...
...Then at a signal, the band marched into seats on the grandstand and governor Christian A. Herter threw out the first ball, at least according to the announcer. No one, I believe, actually saw the Governor in all the crowd. The ball just popped out of somewhere and the cather grabbed it. Overhead a plane flew by with the banner, "Murphy for Governor." Scraps of paper descended in enthusiasm from the upper tiers and the shivering band played "Jingle Bells." No one laughed. There was that something in the air before a great event that stilled even the omnipresent crackling...
...Editor Foley chose to abide by the judgments of earlier years, she had to pass up such masterpieces as Sherwood Anderson's Triumph of the Egg and Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, which somehow never made the yearly collections. Some master storytellers, among them Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara, do not appear, while William Faulkner is represented by a mediocre sketch...