October 2010
15 posts
In our current issue (33:3): Fiction by Susan Ford
Our Fall 2010 issue features Susan Ford’s first published work of fiction, “Of Questionable Provenance.” It is a remarkable story for many reasons, one being the way in which Ford invokes the sensibility of her first-person narrator, a London rare-books dealer and antiquarian scholar, and applies it seamlessly to the city that provides the story’s setting. Ford writes,
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Contributor News: Gary Scharnhorst
Our Winter 1996 issue contained a found text feature on Bret Harte, “My Luck, Just Now, Is Pretty Hard”: Letters From Bret Harte, 1872-78.
Gary Scharnhorst, who brought us the Bret Harte feature, has edited Twain in His Own Time, a collection of biographical pieces on Mark Twain. One is an interview with his mother, another is a recollection by the pilot who instructed him in boat...
“In the essay, concepts do not build a continuum of operations, thought does not...”
– Theodor Adorno, “The Essay As Form”
“Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success. It is idle to...”
– William Hazlitt, “On Application to Study”
“I will venture to say, that no one but a pedant ever read his own works...”
– William Hazlitt, “Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?”
“An author had better try the effect of his sentences on his stomach than on his...”
– William Hazlitt, “On the Prose-Style of Poets”
“Literature is, and always must be, inseparably blended with politics and...”
– Thomas Macaulay, “On the Royal Society of Literature”
“Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.”
– Max Beerbohm
“The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious that that of the...”
– Samuel Johnson 