Word: hemingways
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...associate professor of English will conduct a course on in the Eighteenth Century . The course, to be given in the will "focus mainly on English A survey of "American Fiction 1890" will be undertaken by Poirier, assistant professor of English Among the authors to be Howells, James, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner...
...should be the duty of book juries to reward the all-out professional author and not to dig around and rescue a writer from obscurity, said Novelist John O'Hara a few years ago. "I don't believe that there are better writers than Hemingway, Faulkner, Cozzens, and me pining away in Brown County, Indiana, or in an espresso joint on Third Street, or on the faculty of East South Dakota A. & M." Last week, U.S. book publishers took cognizance of O'Hara's benediction for professionalism and tapped three veteran writers...
...novel is not merely a sentimental binge. Paris, Venice and the Riviera shimmer before the reader's eye like mirages evoked by Remarque's lovingly descriptive touch. And he has more than a trace of the gift that Cyril Connolly once noted in Hemingway of "saturating his books with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." The trouble is that Remarque's sun is too often in eclipse...
...supporting Faulknerian types who around on the front porch country store, self-styled cates with a Hemingway can be seen in person every the pages of Al Capp and Kelly. Some of the dialogue as though it was lifted from time vaudeville. For example Turk, (Angelo's sheriff) turnkey, drunk on election to do a little between themselves...
...curiosity: it is the first book to appear simultaneously in the U.S. and the Soviet Union; it is written by the only American writer known to have collected sizable royalties from Moscow: its author, a bestseller in the millions in Russia, is ranked by Moscow side by side with Hemingway-but few U.S. readers have ever heard...