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Spotlight on: Reading Group Guide Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates Born February 3, 926, in Yonkers, NY; died of Name: Richard Yates emphysema and complications from minor Born: 926 surgery, November 7, 992, in Birmingham, AL; son of Vincent M. (a sales executive) and Ruth (Maurer) Yates; married Sheila Bryant, 948 (divorced, 959); married Martha Speer, 968 (divorced, 974); children: Sharon, Monica, Gina. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Army, 944-46. Career: United Press Association, New York City, financial reporter, 946- 48; Remington Rand, Inc., New York City, publicity writer, 948-50; freelance public relations writer, 953-60; New School for Social Research, New York City, teacher of creative writing, 959-62; Columbia University, New York City, teacher of creative writing, 960-62; United Artists, Hollywood, screenwriter, 962; U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Washington, DC, speech writer, 963; University of Iowa, Iowa City, lecturer, 964-65, assistant professor of English, 966- 92; Columbia Pictures, Hollywood, screenwriter, 965-66; Wichita State University, writer in residence, 97-72; taught at Harvard Extension, Columbia University, and Boston University. Awards: Atlantic Firsts award, 953; National Book Award nomination for Revolutionary Road; Guggenheim fellowship, 962, 98; American Academy Grant, 963; National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, 963 and 975; Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University, 964; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 966, and award, 984; Rockefeller grant, 967; Rosenthal Foundation award, 976; National Magazine Award for Fiction, 978, for “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” Writings: Novels: Revolutionary Road, Atlantic-Little, Brown, 96. A Special Providence, Knopf, 969. Disturbing the Peace, Delacorte, 975. -
Daniel Green
DANIEL GREEN 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS RADICAL REALISTS “Like Life: Radical Realism and the Fiction of Sam Pink” (5) “Reinforcing Hard Reality: Stephen Dixon” (14) “Sincerity and the Surface: On Nicholson Baker” (19) “Not Somewhere or Anywhere” (Ottessa Moshfegh) (26) “Entering Cross River” (Rion Amilcar Scott) (30) “Contextualized Naturalism: The Artfulness of Russell Banks's Affliction” (36) “Sleights of Hand” (Philip Roth) (46) REGRESSIVE REALISTS “Richard Powers I: Forsaking Illusions” (50) “Lost in the Woods: Richard Powers, The Overstory” (58) “Safely Familiar” (Denis Johnson) (63) “Getting At The Thing Itself” (Kent Haruf” (66) “Endless Talk” (Richard Ford) (71) “Killing the Joke” (Lorrie Moore) (80) “Until the Movie Comes Out” (Richard Russo) (84) “Illusions of Substance” (Charles Baxter) (89) 3 PREFACE The underlying assumption of most of my critical writing has been that, far from representing a tangential, eccentric practice (as much of current literary culture would have it), “experimental” fiction in fact provides an indispensable service in helping to keep the literary resources of fiction refreshed. Often this entails contrasting such fiction with a conventionalized or exhausted realism, which despite the interventions of fabulists and postmodernists (not to mention the efforts of many genre writers) remains more or less the default preference in both American fiction and general-interest literary criticism. But the problem with a blanket critique of realism, especially from the years after World War II, and even more especially -
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home Jeffrey Gonzaleza a the Borough of Manhattan Community College Published Online: 06 Aug 2014
This article was downloaded by: [Jeffrey Gonzalez] On: 07 August 2014, At: 10:09 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vcrt20 Ontologies of Interdependence, the Sacred, and Health Care: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home Jeffrey Gonzaleza a The Borough of Manhattan Community College Published online: 06 Aug 2014. To cite this article: Jeffrey Gonzalez (2014) Ontologies of Interdependence, the Sacred, and Health Care: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 55:4, 373-388, DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2013.783780 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2013.783780 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. -
THE CLEVELAN ORCHESTRA California Masterwor S
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To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21St Century
Initiatives in Art and Culture To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21st Century 21ST ANNUAL AMERICAN ART CONFERENCE FRIDAY – SATURDAY, MAY 20 – 21, 2016 1851, after an original of 1851, The Greek Slave, The Greek Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape, 1938, oil on canvas, 86¾ x 172⅞ in. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana. © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed Hiram Powers, Powers, Hiram Art University x 18¼ in. Yale 1844, marble, 65¼ x 21 Dann Fund. 1962.43, Olive Louise Gallery, by VAGA, New York, NY. Jonathan Boos. Jonathan Boos. 36 x 29 in. Private collection; photo: courtesy, canvas, Guy Pène du Bois, Country Wedding, Henry Peters Gray, The Wages of War, 1848, oil on 1929, oil on canvas, 48¼ x 76¼ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Several Ladies and Gentlemen, 1873. 73.5. THE GRADUATE CENTER, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21st Century 21ST ANNUAL AMERICAN ART CONFERENCE Heilbrun, 1922). Chanler. Robert Winthrop Ivan Narodny, (from: 1921 Chanler, Robert Winthrop New York: William New York: Avian Arabesque, Avian Arabesque, The Art of In this conference, Initiatives in Art and Culture considers iconic works by recognized masters, seeking to understand both why they were celebrated in their own time and why they retain their power today. At the same time, we explore the works of artists who did not retain the renown they enjoyed during their lifetimes and who fell into obscurity. But obscurity is not necessarily forever, and as cycles of taste have changed, these once-forgotten artists and their largely unknown works have re-surfaced to startle us today. -
Full List of Book Discussion Kits – September 2016
Full List of Book Discussion Kits – September 2016 1776 by David McCullough -(Large Print) Esteemed historian David McCullough details the 12 months of 1776 and shows how outnumbered and supposedly inferior men managed to fight off the world's greatest army. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler - In this timely and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund - Marie Antoinette lived a brief--but astounding--life. She rebelled against the formality and rigid protocol of the court; an outsider who became the target of a revolution that ultimately decided her fate. After This by Alice McDermott - This novel of a middle-class American family, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of their changing world. Ahab's Wife, or the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund - Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, this tale of 19th century America explores the strong-willed woman who loved Captain Ahab. Aindreas the Messenger: Louisville, Ky, 1855 by Gerald McDaniel - Aindreas is a young Irish-Catholic boy living in gaudy, grubby Louisville in 1855, a city where being Irish, Catholic, German or black usually means trouble. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. -
Celebrating Andrew Wyeth the American Artist’S Centennial Is Being Honored with Two Major Retrospectives of His Work
along the way Celebrating Andrew Wyeth The American artist’s centennial is being honored with two major retrospectives of his work. Andrew Wyeth may have been a favorite of U.S. presidents. In 1963, he became the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom when John F. Kennedy bestowed the honor. Richard Nixon once sponsored a White House exhibition of works by the Pennsylvania- and Maine- based artist, and both Bushes honored Wyeth, with the Congressional Gold Medal in 1990 and the National Medal of the Arts in 2007. At the other end of the spectrum, comic- strip character Snoopy owned a Wyeth that he displayed prominently in his doghouse. In between, the artist was alternately lauded and dismissed by critics but remained a perennial commercial favorite. This year marks the centennial of Wyeth’s birth, and two major museum retrospectives have been assembled NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH ART, OF MUSEUM CAROLINA NORTH ©ANDREW WYETH/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), RIGHTS WYETH/ARTISTS ©ANDREW for the occasion. Andrew Wyeth at 100 can be seen at Winter 1946, tempera, Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, through December 31 (farnsworthmuseum.org), and Andrew in Andrew Wyeth: Maine Watercolors, 1938–2008, the focal Wyeth: In Retrospect is on display through September exhibition in a series of five exhibitions that make upAndrew 17 at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Wyeth at 100, on display at the museum’s Wyeth Center and in Pennsylvania (brandywinemuseum.org), and from October its Hadlock and Wyeth Study Center galleries. -
SR Books March 2018.Pdf
Sunriver Books & Music March 2018 Newsletter Sunriverbooks.com 541-593-2525 Saturday March 31st at 5:00 PM Jennifer Haupt will give a slide show presentation on her moving novel, In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills. Jennifer Haupt spent 25 years as a journalist writing for such pres- tigious publications as O’ Oprah’s magazine, The Seattle Times and Psychology Today. In 2006 she traveled to Rwanda to interview survivors of the genocide. From her experiences she was inspired to write this uplifting novel that intersects the story of a young American woman, Rachel, and the people she meets in Rwanda who will ultimately show her the meaning of grace and home. Lillian Carlson met Henry Shepard at a speech by Martin Luther King Jr., the attraction was instant. Henry was at the event as a newspaper photographer, trying to get his career going, passionate about photog- raphy. Later, the shot he took of Lillian would grace the cover of Life magazine. But in the 1960’s the world was not ready to embrace a rela- tionship between a white man and a black woman. They moved on, Henry married his high school sweetheart, Merilee, and had a daughter, Rachel. The marriage was not happy, Merilee did not understand Henry’s artistic passions, she wanted stability. When Rachel was 8 Henry learned that Lillian had moved to Africa, opening a small orphanage in Rwanda. He had a few dollars set aside and decid- ed he must take this chance, go to Africa and try to prove he could make it as a serious photographer. -
New Mexico and the Arts of Enchantment
April, May, June 2014 New Mexico and the Arts of Enchantment featuring The Raymond James Financial Collection 1 MFA’s Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Director’s Welcome Travels to National Gallery of Art Dear Friends, Wisteria (1981), the MFA’s prized watercolor by Andrew Wyeth, has The Museum doesn’t take been selected for the exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In, a spring break or summer which will be on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, vacation, so I hope you will D.C., from May 4-November 30, 2014. Comprised of approximately 45 spend your free time with us. choice works, this is the first exhibition to explore Wyeth’s use of the You can travel to New Mexico, window in his art and honors the recent gift of his painting Wind from China, and around the world the Sea to the National Gallery. by simply walking through our doors and enjoying our special exhibitions and collection. New Mexico and the Arts of Enchantment featuring The Raymond James Financial Collection is magical. With more than 100 works, it is one of the most diverse exhibitions we have ever presented – from pre-Hispanic pottery to twenty-first century paintings and sculpture. You will not want to miss the contemporary jewelry Mary James has graciously lent to the exhibition. We are profoundly grateful to Mary and Tom James, Raymond James Financial, and the other generous collectors for sharing some of their favorite works with the community. I also want to thank Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin and the entire curatorial staff for their dedication and creativity. -
Grace: a Reflection on the Novels of Marilynne Robinson
Volume 48 Number 1 Article 3 September 2019 Grace: A Reflection on the Novels of Marilynne Robinson Elayne Apol Heynen Dordt University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Heynen, Elayne Apol (2019) "Grace: A Reflection on the Novels of Marilynne Robinson," Pro Rege: Vol. 48: No. 1, 14 - 16. Available at: https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol48/iss1/3 This Feature Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at Digital Collections @ Dordt. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pro Rege by an authorized administrator of Digital Collections @ Dordt. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Editor’s Note: Elayne Apol Heynen wrote this paper for a Kuyper Scholars Seminar to precede the Prodigal Love of God Conference, held at Dordt, April 4-6, 2019, and co-sponsored by the Lilly Fellowship Program as a regional conference. Grace: A Reflection on the Novels of Marilynne Robinson the simple joy of the words on the page. For this joy in words is what makes her writing so memo- rable: each sentence is delectable, meant to be read and then re-read, reveled in and embraced before the reader moves on to see what the next sentence might bring. Her novels call the reader to slow down, to notice the beauty of the ordinary, both in the beauty of her writing and the beauty of the lives she writes about. If one could take a common kitchen sponge, saturate the sponge with the words from her novels, and then wring out the sponge, what one would see drip out slowly would unmis- takably be grace. -
ANALYSIS Garry, Patr
REVIEW In the Shadow of War (2006) Patrick Garry Patrick Garry is a professor of law and the prolific author of both scholarly books and allegorical novels in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O’Connor, and Marilynne Robinson. Allegory is a rare achievement that distinguishes the most evolved literary fiction and is characteristic of many classics. The narrator Glen begins In the Shadow of War by inviting the reader to participate with him in trying to understand the meaning of his brother Ricky, which turns out to be the meaning of life. When the reader learns that the story is going to be about the narrator’s relationship to a retarded brother—“Who wants to read about a retard?”--it is both a straightforward forewarning on page 1 and a test. Like Bartleby in Melville’s great story, Ricky is a mirror reflecting the nature of other characters (most of whom are retarded in various less visible ways) and of the reader as well: Glen says, “That was how I often judged people--by how I thought they would react to retards.” We do not blame Glen in the least for what happens to Ricky, because he is so young, because he tries so hard and obviously loves Ricky, because he is so honest and critical of himself, because we (most readers) would never be able to do as well by Ricky as Glen, and because Glen is the one who actually has the responsibility. We admire him all the way because he is so much better a person than we think we would be in such a situation. -
Oprah's Book Club & Book Club
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB & BOOK CLUB 2.0 Below is a listing of books highlighting authors and selections chosen by Oprah Winfrey for viewers of her former TV show to read and discuss. Started in 1996, it began as a monthly book club, but now, titles are added sporadically by. DATE TITLE, AUTHOR, CALL NUMBER & DESCRIPTION THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, by Jacquelyn Mitchard Call Number: F MITCHARD It happened in a flash. One minute Beth Cappadora was the happily married mother of three. The next, one of 09/1996 them, 3-year-old Ben, was missing. Was he kidnapped? No one knew, and as minutes lengthened into hours, days, weeks, months, years, even the woman police officer obsessed with the case gave up hope. But suddenly something so unexpected happens, it changes everything. SONG OF SOLOMON, by Toni Morrison Call Number: F MORRISON 10/1996 Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton Call Number: Available on Hoopla 11/1996 Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love. SHE’S COME UNDONE, by Wally Lamb Call Number: eBook on OverDrive Meet Dolores Price.