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"she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson..." "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary author, or would-be author, to confess admiration for another. At last I said, "Not Hemingway--a really dishonest man, the closet-everything. Not Thomas Wolfe--all that purple upchuck; of course, he isn't living. Faulkner, sometimes: Light in August. Fitzgerald, sometimes: Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Tender Is the Night. I really like Willa Cather. Have you read My Mortal Enemy?" With no particular expression, she said, "Actually, I wrote it."
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emily-dickinson
henry-james
light-in-august
nathaniel-hawthorne
tender-is-the-night
thomas-wolfe
william-faulkner
willa-cather
ernest-hemingway
f-scott-fitzgerald
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Truman Capote |
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"Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad."
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henry-james
novels
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Eudora Welty |
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5db8e5c
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Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them.
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reading
henry-james
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Amy Poehler |
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433aa9a
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[Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship] will one day be resolved by the 'criticism of the future': 'The figured tapestry, the long arras that hides him, is always there ... May it not then be but a question, for the fullness of time, of the finer weapon, the sharper point, the stronger arm, the more extended lunge?' Is Shakespeare hinting here that one day critics will hit upon another, more suitable candidate, identify the individual in whom the man and artist converge and are 'one'? If so, his choice of metaphor - recalling Hamlet's lunge at the arras in the closet scene - is fortunate. Could James have forgotten that the sharp point of Hamlet's weapon finds the wrong man?
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shakespeare-criticism
henry-james
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James Shapiro |
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4bf49b4
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Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.
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freedom
henry-james
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Vivian Gornick |
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0117948
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He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler.
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henry-james
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Jennie Fields |