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- 171: John Updikess Pigeon Feather
- John Updike tells good stories in his new collection, "Pigeon Feathers." What's more -- or, rather, what helps to make them good -- is his conspicuous devotion to the perilous marksmanship of words. All readers are bound to be grateful to ... happy to report that his publisher felicitously chimes Mr. Updike's Pennsylvania-Dutch tones with a Linotype contribution named for Janson, a Dutchman. And paper made at Spring Grove, Pa. Over Territory and Time The stories in "Pigeon Feathers" float from Pennsylvania to England, to New England, to New York, and always back to Pennsylvania. In general outline and under various names the characters are repeated as frequently as characters are ... write are in the original cast. There are parts for children of two generations: the one seen in a mirror, the other viewed from parental altitudes. Eventually, I imagine, that second generation will start writing stories about Mr. Updike's slowly aging cycle. That should keep the genealogists of lit'ry criticism busy, shouldn't I? At first glance Mr. Updike's range seems narrow. As a matter of fact, ...
- 172: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... any more debts Still, Poe had no money and necessity forced him to live with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, in Baltimore, Maryland. None of his poetry had sold particularly well, so he decided to write stories. He could find no publisher for his stories, and so resorted to entering writing contests to make money and receive exposure. He was rarely successful, but eventually won. His short story, MS. Found in a Bottle was well liked and one of the judges in the contest, John P. Kennedy, befriended him.3 It was on Kennedy's recommendation that Poe became assistant editor ...
- 173: Big Game
- T. Coraghessan Boyles "Greasy Lake" and "Big Game" are similarly structured but completely different short stories that explain the transitions of people from fake slaves of their image to genuine and realized individuals. If not portrayed in the stories, the development in the characters certainly escapes into the readers imagination and almost magically makes them the learned. The plot of the two stories is one of the strongest lines connecting them together ...
- 174: Pigeon Feather
- John Updike tells good stories in his new collection, "Pigeon Feathers." What's more -- or, rather, what helps to make them good -- is his conspicuous devotion to the perilous marksmanship of words. All readers are bound to be grateful to ... happy to report that his publisher felicitously chimes Mr. Updike's Pennsylvania-Dutch tones with a Linotype contribution named for Janson, a Dutchman. And paper made at Spring Grove, Pa. Over Territory and Time The stories in "Pigeon Feathers" float from Pennsylvania to England, to New England, to New York, and always back to Pennsylvania. In general outline and under various names the characters are repeated as frequently as characters are ... write are in the original cast. There are parts for children of two generations: the one seen in a mirror, the other viewed from parental altitudes. Eventually, I imagine, that second generation will start writing stories about Mr. Updike's slowly aging cycle. That should keep the genealogists of lit'ry criticism busy, shouldn't I? At first glance Mr. Updike's range seems narrow. As a matter of fact, ...
- 175: Dorothy Parker
- ... champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.' *** Dorothy Parker became popular shortly after the first world war with her light verse and short stories. Although her works may not seem harsh and unwomanly today, they were labeled in this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed into something of a national frenzy, while giving the ... Who should be, by rights, in hell.' The mental anguish of many of the female characters in her work, brought about by love or a cunning illusion thereof, is lucidly illustrated in two of her short stories, "Dusk Before Fireworks" and "A Telephone Call." In each, the telephone is somehow used as a cruel instrument of torture against the female protagonist. The telephone is used to make Kit feel wounded ...
- 176: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... agrees with Poe s belief, Annabel Lee definitely causes one s emotions to stir. As far as Poe s literary career is concerned, he was far more than just a poet. Poe wrote many poems, short stories, and short prose pieces. His short stories and prose allow him more leeway with his words to make chills run down the spine of anyone who reads it. He is known to go into description of ...
- 177: Edgar Allan Poe 5
- ... was a poor seamstress, but she welcomed Poe into her home and took care of him. In 1833 The Saturday Visitor of Baltimore announced a literary contest with prizes of fifty dollars for the best short story, and twenty-five dollars for the best poem. Poe submitted a group of stories, Tales of the Folio Club, and a poem, The Coliseum. One of the stories, MS. Found in a Bottle, won the story prize, and his poem would have won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize ...
- 178: Dorothy Parker
- ... champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.' *** Dorothy Parker became popular shortly after the first world war with her light verse and short stories. Although her works may not seem harsh and unwomanly today, they were labeled in this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed into something of a national frenzy, while giving the ... Who should be, by rights, in hell.' The mental anguish of many of the female characters in her work, brought about by love or a cunning illusion thereof, is lucidly illustrated in two of her short stories, "Dusk Before Fireworks" and "A Telephone Call." In each, the telephone is somehow used as a cruel instrument of torture against the female protagonist. The telephone is used to make Kit feel wounded ...
- 179: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... was a poor seamstress, but she welcomed Poe into her home and took care of him. In 1833 The Saturday Visitor of Baltimore announced a literary contest with prizes of fifty dollars for the best short story, and twenty-five dollars for the best poem. Poe submitted a group of stories, Tales of the Folio Club, and a poem, The Coliseum. One of the stories, MS. Found in a Bottle, won the story prize, and his poem would have won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize ...
- 180: Margaret Atwood
- ... The Cirle Game ¨ 1968, The Animals in That Country ¨ 1970, The Journals of Susanna Moodie ¨ 1970, Procedures for Underground ¨ 1971, Power Politics ¨ 1974, You are Happy ¨ 1978, Selected Poems ¨ 1978, Two-Headed Poems ¨ 1981, True Stories ¨ 1984, Interlunar ¨ 1987, Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 ¨ 1990, Selected Poems 1966-1975 ¨ 1995, Morning in the Burned House Short Fiction ¨ 1977, "Dancing Girls" ¨ 1983, "Murder in the Dark" ¨ 1983, "Bluebeard's Egg" ¨ 1991, "Wilderness Tips" ¨ 1992, "Good Bones" Novels ¨ 1969, The Edible Woman 1985, The Handmaid's Tale ¨ 1972, Surfacing 1988, Cat's Eye ... Rebels 1815-1840 ¨ 1982, Second Words: Selected Critical Prose ¨ 1995, Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Edited ¨ 1982, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English ¨ 1986, The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English ¨ 1987, The Canlit Foodbook ¨ 1989, The Best American Short Stories ¨ 1995, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English ~ STYLE ~ Although many have used Margaret Atwoods style of writing ...
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