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Professorship and 'The Perennial Taker of Courses'

Samir Chopra wrote 2 months ago: In ‘In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks‘ Hortense Calisher writes, Robert was a … more →

Tags: Books, Philosophy, Writing #2, Dilettantism, Frankfurt School, In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks, Max Horkheimer, non-matriculated study, Short Stories

Cryptoquote Spoiler - 12/29/12

unclerave wrote 4 months ago: collected stories of hortense calisher (Photo credit: cdrummbks) “A happy childhood can’ … more →

Tags: Entertainment, Games, language, Puzzles, cryptoquote, codes, Quotes, cryptogram

QOTD - 23.09.12

karenjeynes wrote 8 months ago: “Ms” is a syllable which sounds like a bumblebee breaking wind. - Hortense Calisher … more →

Tags: You Can Quote Me On That, MS

Words, Bathroom Art and Knitting

mybeautfulthings wrote 1 year ago: Today has been on of those days when finding the beautiful has been harder than usual. I’ve be … more →

Tags: Art, Travel, Sculpture, Craft, knitting, Words, Literature, Quotations, Tabitha

H. Finn wrote 3 years ago: “An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born s … more →

Tags: Potent Quotables, Add new tag, Arts

Typical Tales8 comments

Mark Athitakis wrote 3 years ago: The creator of the litblog Years of BASS is preparing to read The Best American Short Stories 1981, … more →

Tags: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hortense Calisher

elizabeth wrote 4 years ago: The Fiction of Hortense Calisher by Kathleen Snodgrass (Google Books) Calisher at The John Simon Gug … more →

Tags: Books, Fiction, death, Short Stories, Novels, American Fiction

JCO on Hortense Calisher

Randy Souther wrote 4 years ago: The recent passing of Hortense Calisher prompted me to review Joyce Carol Oates’s writings abo … more →

Tags: Reviews, Books, Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels

The Stuff We Miss

jakking wrote 4 years ago: It is a truism to note that we are drowning in information these days.  Twenty-four TV channels and … more →

Tags: data overload


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