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Tag Archives: E.M. Forster
Happy Birthday, Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born on this day in 1819. Moby-Dick is one of my all-time favorite books (my essays and excerpts are linked at the bottom of this post) – so I figured I wouldn’t just re-hash that old territory … Continue reading
Posted in On This Day, writers
Tagged E.M. Forster, Hart Crane, Herman Melville, John Huston, Michael Schmidt, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Books: “Howards End” (E.M. Forster)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Howards End – by E.M. Forster I wrote yesterday a bit about Howards End. This book feels like it becomes more relevant with each passing day. Aside from the intricacies of the characters lives – … Continue reading
The Books: “A Room with a View” (E.M. Forster)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: A Room With a View – by E.M. Forster I saw the movie before I read the book – this is the case with all of Forster, actually. I came to Forster late – I … Continue reading
“Feel this teapot.”
Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot … Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain’t going to be no tea. — Katherine Mansfield, journal entry, May 1917
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
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mud-covered universe
“Ulysses is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud. It is an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.” … Continue reading
Fragments
I was so upset reading The Children of the Arbat this morning that it’s put me in a melancholic mood all day. I’m having a bad day. At around 7 a.m., after reading for a couple hours (and it was … Continue reading
Summer Reading
… of the stars. I found this very enjoyable reading. What are “stars” reading this summer? Looks like pretty much everybody is reading Harry Potter (except Harold Bloom who is spending the summer re-reading the god-awful canon of the god-awful … Continue reading
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Tagged Cary Grant, Children of the Arbat, E.M. Forster, Edmund Burke, England, fiction, France, John Adams, Memoirs, nonfiction, politics, Red Sox, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Stephen King, Thomas Jefferson
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EM Forster: “an inverted Victorianism”
“Ulysses is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud. It is an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.” … Continue reading
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Tagged E.M. Forster, Ulysses
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Only Connect
An absolutely terrific essay by Roger Ebert on “two conversations” in the film Howards End. I loved that movie … which was quite extraordinary, considering my passionate feelings about that book. Not only did they “get” all the characters, and … Continue reading