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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Over my dinner last night, I was reading the article in the Sept. 21 issue about culture in the decade of the Great Depression, and I came across this statement: "Steinbeck reacted [to the human misery of the 1930s] by describing archetypal characters in a deliberately plain style, almost as if he were writing myth rather than literature."
Tell you what, that statement made me think immediately of Annie Proulx. Maybe I should read some Steinbeck. (Somehow I made it through high school and college without ever having to read The Grapes of Wrath.)
Front-Ranger:
The first paragraph of The Grapes of Wrath is really well written. I also enjoyed Of Mice and Men and To A God Unknown.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 20, 2009, 09:44:37 pm ---The first paragraph of The Grapes of Wrath is really well written.
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What about the rest of the book? ;) ;D
Front-Ranger:
It was basically a repetition on the theme.
Did ennione read "The It Bird" by Susan Orlean? I am proud to be on the bleeding edge of fashion again, as I venture out to feed and be pecked by my new pets, Jose and Paco!!
I can't post a picture of them right now because it's dark, and they're in their henhouse.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 26, 2009, 01:25:31 am ---Did ennione read "The It Bird" by Susan Orlean? I am proud to be on the bleeding edge of fashion again, as I venture out to feed and be pecked by my new pets, Jose and Paco!!
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I just read that over lunch today. ;D I sure hope you're on the cutting edge, rather than the bleeding edge. ... 8)
The other piece in the Sept. 28 issue that I read over lunch today was Adam Gopnik's article on writings about the Dreyfus affair. I was hauled up short over my cider by the following:
"In any modernized country, the backward-looking party will always tend toward resentment and grievance. ... When the conservative party comes to see itself as unfairly marginalized, it becomes a party of pure reaction."
Sound familiar?
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