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Hace 2 días · In a world that's gotten itself in such a big hurry, the predictable order of things is perhaps thought of more as a boring anti-virtue, as the American novelist John Updike once stressed. More often than not, people opt for the loud and brazen, hoping to be astonished or bewildered or shocked or, on a base level, be stimulated.
Hace 2 días · July 24, 2024. Lewis H. Lapham, the scholarly patrician who edited Harper’s Magazine for nearly three decades, and who in columns, books and later his own magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly ...
Hace 2 días · Franklin’s work postures Jones as not an editor but the editor, a quintessential example of how culturally lucrative a publishing relationship can be when the editor is involved, informed, and invested in their craft. Without the impact of Judith Jones, American culture would be far more bland; without The Editor, literary history would be ...
Hace 5 días · It’s John Updike, from a short story called Farrell’s Caddie. Farrell is an American banker from Long Island playing golf in Scotland. On Sunday night, ...
Hace 25 minutos · The Olympic Games have not attracted writers in the manner individual Olympic sports have. That’s not surprising. You can be a fan of golf (John Updike) or tennis (David Foster Wallace) or ...
Hace 4 días · Emblematic of the new builders was William J. Levitt, who joined his immigrant father in the construction business in the 1930s. After experimenting with mass production during WWII, in the late 1940s the Levitts built what would become the most famous housing development of the age, the 17,000-home Levittown on Long Island, New York.By the mid-1950s, Levitt was the nation’s largest builder ...
Hace 2 días · John owes its unique popularity to two highly revered saints, John the Baptist (forerunner of Jesus Christ) and the apostle John (traditionally considered the author of the Gospel of John); the name has since been chosen as the regnal or religious name of many emperors, kings, popes and patriarchs.
