Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pietro di Donate, handsome 32-year-old bricklayer-turned-novelist (Christ in Concrete), just married in Manhattan by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, told reporters he was planning a Hoboken honeymoon. When asked what his professional plans were, Pietro a longtime breadwinner for seven orphaned brothers & sisters and more recently a conscientious objector, replied: "I don't know. I'm too sophisticated to go back to bricklaying and I'm too confused to return to writing...
...Novelist Hurst does not smoke or drink, has a phobia about possessions. Says she: "Of course I own some things. But what I mean is, there are so many which I do not own. No houses in the country, no cars. I won't let myself be buried under bracelets and shields." In her West 67th Street (Manhattan) apartment of 14 rooms and six baths, with a 60-ft. living room, a writing room with wood paneling from a medieval French church, stained glass windows, Author Hurst gets up at 6 a.m., walks in Central Park until 7, then...
...expected of a Bette Davis picture is adult, uncondescending dialogue. "Old Acquaintance" has more of it than Hollywood can usually scrape together, though 'ess than "Now, Voyager," for example. Most of this dialogue concerns the two loves of Bette, who here plays Katherine Marlowe, a modern and conscientious novelist. The first is the husband of her best friend (Miriam Hopkins) who "turns out her novels on a sausage grinder." The second is a dapper young man (Gig Young) whom she loses to Miriam's daughter. This latter part of the plot is weakened by its dependence on Gig Young...
This book is an encyclopedic anthology of European writing between Europe's two greatest wars. Into its 935 pages, the editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel...
George Washington Cable, late great Southern novelist, said that Creole society was a ship in which ladies were passengers and men the crew. The women asked passengers' questions, got sailors' answers, replied wittily and "laughed often, feeling their constrained insignificance." Victoria Grandolet might serve as a lecture with that acute observation for a text...