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Tag Archives: Anne Fadiman
“My thoughts bustle along like a Surinam toad, with little toads sprouting out of back, side, and belly, vegetating while it crawls.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He looked at his own Soul with a telescope. What seemed all irregular, he saw and shewed to be beautiful Constellations: and he added to the Consciousness hidden worlds within worlds. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebooks It’s his birthday today. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Andrew Marvell, Anne Fadiman, Ben Jonson, Camille Paglia, Derek Mahon, Edmund Spenser, Elizabeth Bishop, England, Jane Langton, John Donne, John Dryden, John Keats, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stevie Smith, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth
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2022 Books Read
Some re-reads this year, but a lot of new-to-me authors as well. New novels written by faves. Been a year of upheaval and transitions. I’ve managed to keep up my regular reading schedule. I just don’t feel right if I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Fadiman, art, Australia, Biography, books read, Canada, Christopher Hitchens, Edmund Burke, Elinor Lipman, England, entertainment biography, essays, Eve Babitz, friends, Germany, Greece, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Joseph Cornell, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Master and Margarita, Memoirs, Michael Curtiz, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitford sisters, nonfiction, Paul Zindel, politics, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, war, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, WWII, YA fiction
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2013 Books Read
It’s been a hell of a year. Devastating as well as redemptive. I started it out in Memphis, and end it here in New Jersey. And now my new niece Pearl has arrived! It’s been both a busy year as … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Anne Fadiman, Annie Proulx, Arthur Koestler, Balkans, books read, Darkness at Noon, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Edvard Radzinsky, Elinor Lipman, England, friends, George Eliot, H.L. Mencken, Henry James, Herman Melville, Hungary, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Acocella, Joan Didion, John Banville, Joseph Heller, Joshua Ferris, Lester Bangs, Lorrie Moore, Patricia Highsmith, Philip K. Dick, Russia, Sam Cooke, Shakespeare, Stalin, Tana French, The Netherlands, The Only Game In Town, Thomas Carlyle, Victor Serge, Yugoslavia
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The Books: At Large and At Small, “Coffee,” by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman opens this essay remembering her sophomore year in college, when, on a nightly basis, she would meet up with two boys who … Continue reading
The Books: At Large and At Small, “A Piece of Cotton,” by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman A powerful little essay about the American flag. Anne Fadiman and her husband had moved out of Manhattan after living there for many many … Continue reading
The Books: At Large and At Small, “Coleridge the Runaway,” by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman is a Coleridge fangirl. This entertaining and informative essay is part book-review (reading a two-volume biography of Coleridge) and part meditation on … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Fadiman, At Large and At Small, England, essays, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Books: At Large and At Small, “Procrustes and the Culture Wars”, by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman While Fadiman does not go after the “culture wars” with the same scorched-earth policy that Camille Paglia did (and still does), her aim is … Continue reading
The Books: At Large and At Small, “Night Owl”, by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman is an “owl” and her husband is a “lark”, meaning: she prefers to stay up all night and go to bed around … Continue reading
The Books: At Large and At Small, “Ice Cream”, by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman “Ice Cream” is a perfect example of what the wonderful Anne Fadiman is up to in this collection of essays. Taking her cue from … Continue reading
The Books: At Large and At Small, “Collecting Nature”, by Anne Fadiman
Next up on the essays shelf: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman is a writer cherished by the O’Malley family, for her book Ex Libris (excerpted here) made up of essays by Fadiman having … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Fadiman, At Large and At Small, essays, Vladimir Nabokov
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