Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Upper East Side, where it housed Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Sophisticated teens will want to stop for a hamburger at the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, the onetime haunt of poet Dylan Thomas. And St. Luke's Place is a literary warren: novelist Theodore Dreiser lived at No. 16, poet Marianne Moore at No. 14, playwright Sherwood Anderson...
...such attention. His 1952 book Witness, a now forgotten 800-page confession and jeremiad, was overly melodramatic and Doom-of-the-Westy in tone. Yet his 100-page chapter, "The Story of a Middle-Class Family," is among the finest and most frightening of American autobiographies--Sophocles visiting Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with an ax under...
Here we have our Literary City, birthplace and/or alma mater to Willa Cather, Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, B. Traven, Algren, Bellow. Who gets to hang the tag on it? Carl Sandburg...
Asgedom says his first choice this semester is English 178x: "The 20th-Century American Novel From Dreiser to the Present." The course is taught by Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher...
Your friend has made a common mistake. He has confused English 178x, "The 20th-Century American Novel from Dreiser to the Present," with The 20th-Century American Novel Library, Volume Two: Dreiser to the Present, yours for only $19.95. (English 178x, however, throws in a graduate section at no extra charge...