Word: welching
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...American products in gourmet food shops, that label should prosper. According to Stephen Pass, vice president Macy's Marketplace in New York City, Americans are eating a wider variety all kinds of foods, and native fare is benefiting from that trend. Says Pass: "American jam isn't necessarily Welch's anymore. We're going back to small artisans. We get foie gras from the Catskills now. Years ago, I crried Stilton, Roquefort, Gorgonzola and Danish blue cheeses. Now I stock about 15 blues, and two are American. I have 20 chèvres, four from the Northeast and two from...
...Books Denton Welch's Stories brings recognition to a neglected genius. "But First a School" celebrates a great U.S. dance academy...
Almost 40 years after his death at the age of 33, Denton Welch is little more than a literary footnote. Hard-cover editions of his three novels have long been out of print. The New Oxford Companion to English Literature grants him 16 lines (Pocahontas gets 20). Yet in this deep obscurity there are glimmers of revival. The Journals of Denton Welch has recently been reissued, and a biography appeared in Britain last year. Now The Stories of Denton Welch is making its first appearance in the U.S. Readers weary of conventional narrative or the current mode of minimalism...
...talent would have been in the blood; it could not have been learned. Welch's schooling was so desultory that at the age of nine he was still unable to read. When he was 20, better educated but still without focus, he was struck by a car as he cycled along an English country road. From then on he lived with increasing pain until spinal injuries and heart failure killed him 13 years later. But in that period he summoned up his childhood and adolescence and transformed them into art. His tales were produced with a combination of will, eidetic...
...even then, if you looked hard enough in the senior’s eyes, you could see that Welch knew exactly what he was doing...