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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Steven G. Kellman, longtime NBCC member, winner of the 2007 Nona Balakian award for excellence in reviewing, longtime professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and author of " Redemption ," a biography of Henry Roth, was honored Thursday night in San Antonio with an award for literary excellence as the centerpiece of " Inkstravaganza ," the fundraiser for the grass-roots...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
For decades, the late Samuel Snow said he didn't think the world would ever know the truth about what happened the night an Italian POW died in 1944. And then, a Seattle man found evidence that changed history.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
A tribute Saturday exonerated 28 black Army soldiers from Seattle's Fort Lawton who were convicted in an unjust trial following a riot and lynching during World War II.
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worth the popcorn (Free subscription) | 15/02/2008
Henry Roth is a real ladies man and has been breaking the hearts of the female tourists of Hawaii for quite a while. One day he meets Lucy at a local cafe. She seems different than the girls he usually dates and she lives on the island. He decides to ask her out on a [...]
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Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
DEDICATION (Justin Theroux, 2007) Children's book author Henry Roth (Billy Crudup) finds himself in a bind when his illustrator and best friend Rudy Holt (Tom Wilkinson) dies. Henry is prone to crude outbursts and eccentric behavior, such as stacking books on his chest to comfort himself, which impede his ability to work with a new collaborator. With the deadline bearing down on Henry for his latest...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
B orn today:Robert Burton, satirist, Lindley, Leicestershire, 1577; John Ruskin, art critic, social theorist, London, 1819; Jules Verne, novelist, Nantes, France, 1828; Kate Chopin, novelist, short-story writer, St. Louis, Mo., 1851; Martin Buber, Jewish theologian, philosopher, essayist, Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 1878; Henry Roth, novelist, Tysmenica, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1906; Elizabeth Bishop,...
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Lauren Groff's fiction has appeared in journals including The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares and the most recent editions of the Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her first novel, The Monsters of Templeton , will be out in February. This year I fell in love with the New York Review of Books Classics series, which reissues books that are either...
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Hot Wedding Auctions (Free subscription) | 24/11/2007
Would you like a little bling with that wedding gown? Not to much, this is just right. Diamond white, size 8. See it here: Henry Roth Wedding Gown Size 8 Diamond White
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 08/10/2007
In my quest to find books set in New York, I came across this wonderful list put together by Mannheim University and thought I'd share it with you. The fiction titles listed are as follows:
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Authors, Betty Smith, Chester Himes, Culture, Edith Wharton, Entertainment, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Henry Miller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. D. Salinger, J. P. Donleavy, James Baldwin, Jazz, John Cheever, John Franklin Bardin, Last Exit, Literature, Mary McCarthy, Music, Ralph Ellison, Rex Stout, Thomas Pynchon, William Boyd
