Word: liveright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slide-away chin. Women fell all over him, and he returned the compliment. He attacked them in private, pawed them in public, on occasion bedded as many as three a day. He was a braggart, a plagiarist, a liar and a bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits. He was a political idiot who backed the Nazis and the Communists...
JAPANESE SHORT STORIES, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (224 pp.; Liveright; $4.95). Akutagawa, who committed suicide in 1927, is still considered the most Occidental, as well as one of the most influential, Japanese writers. His famed Rashomon was made into an unforgettable movie and later a Broadway play. In this new collection of ten stories, he is badly served by Translator Takashi Kojima, who has used almost every cliché in the English language. But even so, Akutagawa's combination of savagery and detachment can raise Western hackles and dampen Western brows...
Wrote he: "For three-quarters of a century it has been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe...
RASHOMON (119 pp.) - Ryunosuke Akutagawa-Liveright...
...Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion...