[…] remembered five thousand years from now for more than success in war and trade. Someone will have to feel that it would be the ultimate shame if we were to pass like Carthage (great in war and trade) and leave no trace in the spirit.” In Oxford Percy MacKaye found one friend from past years in New York. Ridgely Torrence […]

[…] a store under the printing office. It was in the form of a calla-lily, with the flame fork­ ing from its tongue in its white cup; and he could never pass it, by day or night, without stopping to adore it.” His first sculptor friend was Thomas D. Jones known also as “Tremendous Dead Bones”), who had set up shop […]

[…] Many selections in these books are calcu­ lated to adjust students to sports. The very titles of these stories indicate well enough what adventures in life adjustment they af­ ford: Pass That Puck!; Lou Gehrig Joins the Yankees; Fast Ball (by Bob Feller) ; Stretch Makes a Basket; and Baseball and Books. This last is by Wally Moon and contains […]

[…] not let it affect everything else in my life. Goldbach: In one section of Rust, I grapple with the memory of a sexual assault that I experienced in college. These passages were the most difficult to capture on the page. For me, writing is always a tough and tiring task. It’s never easy to turn a blank screen into a […]

[…] not let it affect everything else in my life. Goldbach: In one section of Rust, I grapple with the memory of a sexual assault that I experienced in college. These passages were the most difficult to capture on the page. For me, writing is always a tough and tiring task. It’s never easy to turn a blank screen into a […]

[…] patient reader for the innovative blend of English/Yiddish: “And so he walked by foot over the schuylkill river toward the citypart in what he knew lived mostly blacks and he passed by underawnish gathersome crowds, not liking to speak to many at once in american or at all until he beheld two yingelakh what were his own age or more […]

[…] fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence – into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all […]

[…] idea came from watching folks going away by the steamcars. No autos, buses, or planes in those days. 106 In 1901, as a police-reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer, I passed around copies of my words to the reporters stationed at the Central Police Station. They tried it out with all sorts of tunes, even with wild parodies. Afflicted with […]

[…] from Wiggam’s Glory. The fourth novel, As of The Gods, is a philosophic study of Giles Dabney, the hero, as he faces mid­ dle age. It is of more than passing significance that one of the most authoritative liter­ ary critics of the day in reviewing these novels said, “This is a swift moving narrative of great emotional power, deep […]

[…] Ohio River whose rise, like the Givens’ own, will be fashioned by the colliding forces of Jacksonian populism, religious evangelism, industrial capitalism, and the struggle for emancipation. As the years pass, this family of immigrants, initially indifferent to slavery, will actively work for its end—performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives […]