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2 giorni fa · 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 ...
2 giorni fa · 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.
1 giorno fa · Uwe Friesel ist der Sohn eines Polizeibeamten. Von 1952 bis 1960 besuchte er das Bismarck-Gymnasium in Hannover. 1956/57 ermöglichte ihm ein Stipendium einen Aufenthalt in den USA, wo er in San Francisco Schüler an einer Highschool war. Von 1961 bis 1965 studierte er Germanistik, Anglistik und Philosophie an der Universität Hamburg, brach ...
2 giorni fa · 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 ...
2 giorni fa · He offered a blend of high culture and populism: the fiction of John Updike and George Saunders mixed with reports on abortion fights, global warming and the age of terrorism — generally, but not always, with a progressive eye. Politically, Harper’s on Mr. Lapham’s watch was increasingly critical of American domestic and foreign policies.
40 minuti fa · 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 ...
5 giorni fa · 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, ...
