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Library-of-America

Fuse Interview: Ian Frazier on the Comic Genius of Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner wrote the funniest stand-alone sentence using the fewest words with which that feat can be done: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Ian Frazier, Library-of-America, Ring Lardner, Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings

Book Interview: Sherwood Anderson — The American Bard of Inchoate Longings

“What Sherwood Anderson knew and understood was the nature of inarticulate lives and what people do when they’re in the grip of strong feelings and words fail them.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Charles Baxter, Death in the Woods, Horses and Men, Library-of-America, Sherwood Anderson, The Triumph of the Egg, Winesburg Ohio

The Annual Arts Fuse Holiday Gift Roundup — Tips From the Experts

Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem — the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with thoughtful suggestions.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Theater Tagged: & Memoirs, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, Alex Alvear, Ambrose Bierce, and Almereyda, arts, Branagh, Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, gifts, holiday, Jimmie Lunceford, John-Coltrane, Library-of-America, Mango Blue, Mosaic-Records, New World Jazz Composers Octet, Patrick J. Cook, Paul Lieberman, Tales, The Devil's Dictionary, Thelonious Monk, Thomas-Bernhard, Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale, Voltaire, Zeffirelli

Fuse Book Interview: George Kimball Takes The Library of America to The Fights

Jack London was rather like Norman Mailer in that he thought of himself, and tried to write like, a boxer who happened to write. They were both often full of shit, but that’s the perspective they tried to convey.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books Tagged: anthology, At the Fights, Boxing, George Kimball, John Sculian, Library-of-America

The Annual Arts Fuse Holiday Gift Roundup — Tips from the Experts

With gift season comes the existential quandary: What to give the culture lovers on your list? This season the writers for The Arts Fuse waylay the crisis by recommending items that will delight the heart and stimulate the mind. Please feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section. Keep in mind that […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Film, Music, Theater Tagged: Art Spielgelman, Belle and Sebastian, BosTix, film poster, H. L. Mencken, holiday gifts, Ipod touch, Javier-Marias, Library-of-America, Lynd Ward, Playbill binder, Your Face Tomorrow

World Books April Update

By Bill Marx I have neglected to point out the recent postings at my other gig, the online feature World Books at BBC/PRI’s The World. I just completed my April podcast, a departure for the series because I focus on a classic American author rather than a writer in translation. But this April 21st marks […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: A Tramp Abroad, Library-of-America, Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, The Mark Twain Anthology

Book Review: Film Critic Manny Farber — Ravenous Genius

Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. Edited by Robert Polito. Library of America, 1000 pages, $40. Reviewed by Justin Marble Film critic Manny Farber’s landmark 1962 essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” champions the underground, manic, frenzied, messy “termite” films against the by-the-book, consciously significant, pompous and often critically-adored “white […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film Tagged: Farber on Film, Justin Marble, Library-of-America, Manny Farber, Robert Polito

Book Review: Edmund Wilson — Prophet of the Blogosphere, Part 2

Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature (Paperback) By Lewis M. Dabney. Johns Hopkins University Press, 672 pages, $25. Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s (Library of America #176) By Edmund Wilson. Edited by Lewis M. Dabney. 1026 pages, $40. Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s (Library of America #177) […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: arts, book-critics, book-reviewers, Books, criticism, Edmund-Wilson, Lewis-dabney, Library-of-America, Persona Non Grata

Books Commentary: Trashy Modern Classics

More evidence bean counters will be picking the classics of the future: two novels by Ayn Rand – the unhinged saint of unbridled capitalism – have been reissued as Penguin Modern Classics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Fuse News Tagged: Ayn-Rand, Books, Charles-Brockden-Brown, Edmund-Wilson, HPLovecraft, Library-of-America, Penguin-Modern-Classics, Persona Non Grata

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