Word: lardner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he has neither Lardner's indescribable humor nor Hemingway's Paris-found sense of style, John O'Hara ranks with them as a first-class, far from phoney reporter. Appointment in Samarra, his first and best novel, was good enough and true enough to make anything he wrote thereafter worth reading. Probably most worth reading are his acid short stories...
...across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding of Son James, who writes, may force him to return to the U. S., thus providing the cause of Leftist Spain with another martyr...
...worth all it cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between a discussion of the price of liquor and a quotation from Longfellow, "I made a resolution that I would never take...
...week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American Novel-" is the journal-a satire that starts off by tagging after Ring Lardner, turns off on an oily road marked Irony-&-Pity, skids into caricature, and comes to a happy halt as the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club-as did Author Davis' first novel, The Anointed, a bare ten months...
Lost to war news reporting last week was James P. Lardner, who went to Barcelona three weeks ago for Paris' New York Herald Tribune. Son of the late Ring W. Lardner, Harvard-educated, 23-year-old Lardner joined an artillery division of the International Brigade...