The Plank (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Edmund Wilson wasn't just one of America's greatest literary journalists; he was a vivid chronicler of the Depression era. His best stuff appeared in The New Republic . We'll be linking to these pieces in the coming weeks, starting with his February 10, 1932, piece, " What Do The Liberals Hope For? " -- Max Fisher
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
It is fortunate for literary historians that Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson did not meet at the Princeton-Yale football game or, heaven forbid, in Edna St. Vincent Millay's bedroom. They were brought together instead at one of Zelda and F....
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
By Reuel Wilson When Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson, who married in 1938, were getting on well, they found each other mutually stimulating and, in the company of friends, they excelled at repartee, not argument. Although McCarthy had little good to say, either in interviews or in her own memoirs, about Wilson as a husband, she clearly benefited as a writer of fiction from his...
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Reading Edmund Wilson’s diaries, “The Thirties”. EW’s notes from his visit to Ford in 1931, for an article that appeared in The New Republic. He’s talking to a Ford exec, who “ran down the Chevrolet people, Chevrolet being then Ford’s rival. Did we know what went on in the Chevrolet offices? [...]
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Last week's reading: >John Maynard Keynes (1932), *Essays in Persuasion* (London: Macmillan). This week's reading: >Wladimir S. Woytinsky (1961)*Stormy Passage: A Personal History Trhough Two Russian Revoutions to Democracy and Freedom, 1905-1960*/a> (New York: Vanguard Press). Next week's reading: >Edmund Wilson (1940), *To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History...
Maitresse (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... Cheney, Mark Danner on Obama and the strange significance of sweet potato pie, and an excerpt from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy's son Reuel's book about his parents. * Slate pants over Emily Dickinson's secret lover. * The Independent pays homage to Studs Terkel. * And in the New Yorker , Woody Allen goes to the health food store.
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... she seduces, she consumes."—Louis Menand, from the introduction to Memoirs of Hecate County Where: Edmund Wilson's enchanted suburb, Hecate County, is ruled over by housewives who get up to mischief during by day, but welcome their husbands home in the evening, highball in hand. Resonance : Hecate represents the Roman trivia , or "three ways." Her three-headed likeness was placed...
