Like you, Im also curious to hear what Kat Lib says about this. as to your list, Im missing but Maya Angelou and Billy Letts. The youngest of six children of Patrick and Marie Bront, Anne was taught in the family's Haworth home and at Roe Head School. } And I must agree that there are some excellent bakeries in and near Montclair. Ah, thanks, jhNY. }, The movie is hilarious. var ue_mid = "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1"; Im also a huge fan of Anne of Green Gables and various other L.M. Im fairly impartial where Jane Austen and film adaptations of her work are concerned. World stays with you long after youve read it. 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American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, jumped from a 25th floor window after pushing her seven-year-old son Vincent out the same window. Alvin Toffler (1928-2016), Future Shock. Thanks, jhNY! I first heard him as a boy, and I never understood how, once everybody heard Chuck Berry play and sing, theyd have much interest in anybody else. Im wondering, with a long comment, if, after you write it in Word, you might post the first half in one box and the second half immediately under it in another box. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_hd_images-2b89833762f600506d44865a33582d11.css"; He did not want to be the voice of a generation, although he was and still is. mississippian arrowheads. Anne Bront was an English poet and novelist, sister of Charlotte and Emily Bront and author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). And the author never learned to drive! Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was best known for The Name of the Rose, a fascinating detective novel set in the 14th century. I havent read the novel, which is about a future world in which women become infertile and the youngest person on the planet is now about 20. Whats not as well known is that Lees actual first name was Nelle (the backward spelling of her grandmother Ellens name) and that Harper worked as an airline reservation agent before achieving literary immortality. Dan Frank, editorial director of Pantheon Books, died on May 24 at the age of 67. And the reason I read it was that it was the first of the novels included in my American Novel class in college, followed by The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage and The Ambassadors. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("tags", ["1838252","2347","743121","69199","321730","31077","969821","2305","221572","367351","146733","6534"]); 4. For most of his career, like his fellow citizen of East St. Louis, Albert King, Chuck Berry was a cash and carry sort of guy. I also was VERY impressed with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings when I read the paperback many years ago. But sadly, he had been drifting away from us for a while, and could no longer write. I love how the so-called bad guys used a LION to intimidate people. Kempton and Anderson seemed like real gentlemen when I spoke with them. He was most known for his often-hilarious fantasy novels in the 41-book Discworld series, and also known for usually not splitting his novels into chapters. } Book Design & Formatting. Naps? Interesting fact: Umbertos family name was reportedly an acronym of ex caelis oblatus Latin for a gift from the heavens.. . Not nice to hear that the NYT moderators (or moderation system) plays favorites, but not surprised, either. Billie Letts (1938-2014) saw her very appealing debut novel Where the Heart Is published when she was in her mid-50s during a career teaching creative writing at the college level. Thanks, jhNY! James novel. gads.src = (useSSL ? Here's a partial list of musicians we lost in the 2010s: Aretha Franklin, David Bowie . Richard Adams (1920-2016), Watership Down. I did not. Alas, I have not acquired a Hamill habit, as I have read very little of either Denis or Pete. Seeing anything about Maya just causes joy for me. I actually like World Without End, Amen. Its very raw and in your face. Some politicians are ruined by one revelation of corruption. I will at some point read more of Austens novels although shes seemed a bit more superficial than George Eliot and the Brontes, but thats my bias coming through I admit. He took a transatlantic boat to Ireland when he met with John Huston to write the Moby-Dick screenplay. Ironic for a (partly) sci-fi writer who set some of his work on other planets. I found so much of Solitude to be unnecessary, which is a shame, because the writing was terrific in places. I never read much Gore Vidal, but he was certainly an outsize figure in literature and other realms, as you nicely described. }); Children's book author Beverly Cleary died on Thursday in Carmel, California, at 104 years old, her publishing company, HarperCollins Publishers, announced on Friday. Talk about a Renaissance woman. If theres a rock and roll heaven was once a question. there was a conservative fellow, departed in the last decade, his name escapes me, but from a midwestern think tank whod made it a crusade to conflate the mistaken association. Gary Coleman died on May 28, 2010. Thats quite an evocative quote, Bill! Ive been riveted by the news on a daily basis about what is coming out about the Russia/Trump connection, which Im not quite sure what to say about it other than Bad! The same is true for Bob Dylan. Never talked to Hentoff. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("signedin", "false"); I dont know although he doesnt go to the absurd extent of that New York Times fool. In addition to doing this weekly blog, I also write the award-winning Montclairvoyant topical-humor column now with Baristanet.com, which covers Montclair, N.J., and nearby towns. function isShowingBuyableFeatures() { Theres a reason Donald Trump is not named Darcy Trump , Oh gosh.he gets on my nerve too, why make an op-ed column on this ? window.Mobvious = {}; How much a smile can mean to someone who sends and receives. if (a[a9]) return; Meanwhile, I also like Jimmy Breslins World Without End, Amen, even though it is a much darker novel. You have her address on 85 Street, do you not? ah, mortality, a pressing subject, if ever there were. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau, Arthur Conan Doyles The Hound of the Baskervilles, Nat Hentoffs Blues for Charlie Darwin and Andrew Bergmans The Freshman. (As former San Francisco Chronicle[r] Phil Bronstein could attest, Sharon Stone and Komodo dragons are in a class by themselves in this category! var node = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; This post will mention several of their books, and offer some interesting information about their lives. apropos of little else, top of my night-table: my book clubs Ramanujan; Africa, by John Reader; and Communication Power, by Manuel Castells. On April 2, Ill be writing a blog post about my new literary-trivia book Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time. David Bowie (1947-2016), Space Oddity. // Because if I find out that you acquired a pet lion after watching The Gang, Im going to SMH. She was also the only author who I trusted to write a mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice, I also read her book Talking About Detective Fiction, which for a longtime crime novel aficionado was quite interesting. var stylesheet = document.createElement("link"); , Ha! } q("f", arguments) Andrea Levy - The British author won the Orange Prize for Small Island and the Walter Scott Prize for The Long Song. His songs are stories, well-told, tightly constructed and downright clever. Not the place one would expect such a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to show up. My apologies to her and you for my ISP (Incessant Sending Problems). His gutsy, pre-novelist reporting reminds me that Stieg Larsson did almost the same thing before writing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc. var isRetina = window.devicePixelRatio >= 2; // retina display Well, they are with some exceptions, of course. Somewhere, as far as mankind has ever sent any of its many machines, there is a satellite, Voyager, moving ever farther from us, possibly toward some unimaginable someone else onboard, anachronistically enough, an lp with human music inscribed awaits just such a listener. You can see what my problem is with posting here now and it does have something to do with the way my WordPress.com account is set up, but not sure why. Harper Lee will be missed by millions, only a few of whom will know that they might also be missing Tay Hohoff, whose editing of TKAM amounted to commercial and even artistic genius, and helped the unprolific Lee secure a most impressive bank account with which to finance her years of silence. Her intelligence, calm and gentle demeanor was transfixing to so many. stylesheet.rel = "stylesheet"; 2018. One of her many quotes and I paraphrase spoke to trying to bring someone a rainbow who has a cloud. Its comforting to know that Jane Austen did the same (without the TV of course)! It didnt attempt to be a faithful adaptation but created its own vision, which I found much more moving and emotionally powerful than the novel ever managed to be for me. }); SL5 having attracted my attention on learning the night in question was on my 6-month birthday. He was a troubled and troubling sort of personality, whose unpleasant quirks and fierce independence would forever keep him out of the mainstream, except when the radio was on. And, as you alluded to, Marquez was a leftist but his fiction was not overtly preachy. One knew where his sympathies lie, but he took a very literary approach. e.g. Thanks, Kat Lib! (function() { Maybe one reason is that the NYT is getting even more comments than usual these days, with all the legitimate anger at all things Trump? (still trying to figure out how I ended up with this yellow feather boa). Interesting to see the perspectives of writers who were born to wealth Edith Wharton is another example of an author who tweaked the upper class from a place of inside knowledge. Good luck finishing it. That novel is not without issues, including some uncomfortable sexism, but worth reading. Many Novels With a Theme Can Be As Good As They Seem, A Fond Look at Ten Writers Who Died During the Past Five Years, An Overview of Oval Office Occupants in Fiction, Nicknames Can Be More Consequential Than Nicknacks. I guess my first suggestion would be to write the comment out elsewhere (such as in a Word file) before pasting it here. Yes, Stieg Larssons death was so untimely he was just 50 or thereabouts, and never lived to see the astounding success of his riveting Millennium Trilogy. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_images-9e9093f0cfddba8c2b1e815375d976a3.css"; Nicely put, jhNY. E.L.s first name was Edgar after Edgar Allan Poe. function q(c, r) { (Of course, sci-fi was only one of the genres in which Bradbury excelled.) He seems to kind of sneer and smirk at the fact that lovers of literature (and lovers of the other arts) as well as creators themselves tend to be more liberal and open-minded. (CBS Local)-- In 2013, author James McBride won the National Book Award for his fiction novel "The Good Lord Bird."Seven years later, the book has been transformed into a mini -series on . //