american literature

Welcome to the 'american literature' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'american literature'.

Are you an expert about 'american literature'? Do you want to be the Technorati authority on 'american literature'? You can write a description that will appear right here: Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “american literature”

 

• "The Gary Snyder Reader": Book Review

  
  — Authority:
  Over six hundred pages, two-thirds of these essays, articles, journals, and interviews, the rest original poetry and Asian translations, this anthology 1999 offers a deep introduction and thorough investigation of a writer I regard as a thinker but also as a worker. As a poem about Japanese loggers ends: "the pain/ of ...
  1 day ago

• Love Triptych

  
  — Authority:
  The bird surfed its slack branch, its feathers a perfect even blue like it had been powder-coated at the factory. I thought of Pat Nixon, her gleaming dark eyes and ceremonial outfits stiff with laundry starch and beading. Hair dyed the color of whiskey and whipped into an unmoving wave. The bird tested out a short ...
  6 days ago

• Recent reading: Angel, Nehamas

  
  — Authority:
  Banksy There are several reviews around of Katherine Angel’s Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell ranging from bizarre to intriguing. Each offers an idiosyncratic reading that reveals as much of the reviewer as of the book. As Rumi said, “We are the mirror as well as the face in it.” The ...
  1 week ago

• [576] The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

  
  — Authority:
  ” All of black New York rises up! He’s the mayor of White New York! Set fire to the mutt! The Italians will watch this on TV, and they’ll love it. And the Irish. Even the Wasps. They won’t know what they’re looking at. They’ll sit in their co-ops on Park and Fifth and East Seventy-Second Street and Sutton ...
  1 week ago

• Reading Roundup of Books, from Jefferson to Cleary’s CATegorical books

  
  — Authority:
  I’ve decided it’s pretty hard to keep up with life these days. At least, it’s hard to keep up with life, planning homeschool lessons, raising two kids, and keeping blogging on two blogs! I’m not going away, but this is how things go. I have read a number of fantastic books in the past months that I’ve never ...
  1 week ago

• Careless People by Sarah Churchwell

  
  For Books' Sake — Authority: 115
  Murder, mayhem and the invention of The Great Gatsby...
  1 week ago

• Judy Blume Book Tiger Eyes Hits Theaters

  
  — Authority:
  Judy Blume and her son bring her 1981 book Tiger Eyes onto the big screen. This is the first Judy Blume book that has been made into a movie.According to a Reuters report Judy Blume teamed up with...        
  1 week ago

• Americana, by Don DeLillo

  
  — Authority:
  I’ve had mixed success with award-winning American author Don DeLillo.  I abandoned the first one I tried ( The Body Artist ) but I was very impressed by Falling Man (see my review ) even though it’s a challenging book to read.  I picked up  Americana  (1971) when I stumbled on it at the library ...
  1 week ago

• New York, New York

  
  — Authority:
  Despite the free advanced copies of Bill Bryson’s One Summer: America, 1927 and Wally Lamb’s We Are Water: A Novel that I got from the Author’s Breakfast at BEA, the cab ride on Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive in New York City invoked many wonderful novels set in the Big Apple. One such book is Tom Wolfe’s ...
  1 week ago

• Links of the Week

  
  — Authority:
  Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter . Some of the links to PDFs disappear quickly so download them promptly. Naked Lunch Screenshot ...
  2 weeks ago

• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

  
  For Books' Sake — Authority: 115
  Everyones got Gatsby fever, but Therese Anne Fowlers fourth novel is looking at Zelda Fitzgerald...
  2 weeks ago

• [575] The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

  
  — Authority:
  ” The sense was that it wanted to consume us, take us into itself, make us a part of the house, maybe—oh, dear. I thought I knew what I was saying, but I’m doing it very badly. ” (Ch.5, p.139) It’s obvious that The Haunting of Hill House is set in a haunted mansion. But unlike most haunted house ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two for Tuesday – Auden and Picasso

  
  — Authority:
  W. H. Auden and Pablo Picasso were brilliant twentieth century artists creating images — one through poetry, and the other, through paintings. Princeton University Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new books focusing on their work. For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio W. H. Auden ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Discussion at Epiphany: "Calebs Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks

  
  — Authority:
  The month of May found the Epiphany Book Club tackling a writer beloved by its members. Geraldine Brooks has written several novels, the book club previously read People of the Book . This time around we read her most recent work Calebs Crossing . Like all of her stories this one is a historical tale which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just Something To Go On With

  
  — Authority:
  A curious, very beautiful afterword follows  Canicula di Anna in Anne Carson’s poetry and essay collection Plainwater . Carson’s closing words capture, with precision and economy, that spaciousness that opens out at the end of a powerful story. It runs for two and a half pages, but not to spoil the effect if ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Rectification

  
  — Authority:
  Kafka liked to have his watch an hour and a half fast. Felice kept setting it right. Nonetheless for five years they almost married. He made a list of arguments for and against marriage, including inability to bear the assault of his own life (for) and the sight of the nightshirts laid out on his parents’ beds at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Native American Literature: An Anthology

  
  — Authority:
  Native American Literature: An Anthology Book title: Native American Literature: An Anthology Author: Lawana Trout Book Description: This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America’s first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  
  — Authority:
  Last month, while reading the ever-elegant obituaries in The Economist , I ran across RPJs . I knew the name through the Merchant/Ivory movies, but she was a writer-writer as well as screen-writer. She wrote over a dozen novels, with a "heroine [who] was almost always herself: trapped in a cross-cultural marriage, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Writing of Home – and One Southern Black Man’s Home Ground

  
  — Authority:
  Writing for me is discovery. If I knew everything when I began a novel, I’m afraid it would be boring to write. I do not know everything that’s going to happen in the book. I don’t want to know everything. I want to discover, as you, the reader, want to discover, what it’s all about. Those little unknown ...
  3 weeks ago

• Green Lights

  
  — Authority:
  Of all that’s been written about the latest film adaptation of one of the most iconic works in American literature, this much is true: it is inherently faithful to the spirit of the novel — or, as the headline for critic David Edelstein’s review in New York magazine put it, “The Colossal Vitality of His […]
  4 weeks ago

Comments about american literature