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When "A World I Never Made" first appeared. Pulitzer prize-winning historian Bernard DeVoto said in the Saturday Review of Literature that it is "Presented with ecstasy... Goes beyond 'Stads Lonigan...
Like most U.S. males, Author James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell has spent considerable time brooding over a weighty question: What's wrong with American women? Like most, he has arrived at a lot of different answers. His favorite seems to be one given by a locked-up lunatic who narrates one of the 21 stories in Farrell's An American Dream Girl...
James T. Farrell, author of "Studs Lonigan," will talk at a forum on the American novel on November 17. Additional speakers will be announced later...
...Despite its fascinating subject, Tomboy is no great shakes as a novel. Its surface action is credible enough, but when Therapist-Novelist Ellson tries to explain what makes his little hoodlums run, he is much too pat and predictable. Unlike such other slum novelists as James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan) and Nelson Algren (The Man with the Golden Arm), he lacks the gift for individualizing his miniature mobsters and thereby arousing sympathy for them. The chances are that Ellson, who is a better reporter than novelist, would have done just as well to turn his notes into a straight...
...naturalistic or sweaty-shirt school of novelists is hard up for scholars these days. But old Professor James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan, The Road Between) has one young fellow in his composition class who, Farrell thinks, is making "a permanent contribution to American literature." Calder Willingham is his name...