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...SWANK - Sherwood Anderson- Centaur Press...
...When Sherwood Anderson walked out of his job as manager of a paint factory he wanted to write books. His ambition was accomplished but not satisfied years ago. U. S. readers and critics rank him high for such Americana as Winesburg, Ohio, A Story Teller's Story, a few others. If there were a U. S. literary pantheon he would be in it. But Author Anderson, like many a lesser man, goes on talking when he is no longer on the air. His latest book, characteristically entitled No Swank, is a collection of 17 articles, some of which have...
Whether or not he has a "style," Sherwood Anderson's style of writing-pondering, whittling, awkwardly echolalic-is all his own. No Swank is trademarked on every page. With the late great Chekhov, Anderson shares the faculty of the truthful blurt: "Almost always, when one of your friends gets kicked down stairs, you're glad. It is a nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics...
...School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...
...Sherwood Larned Washburn...