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...supported by reviewers or academics, before or after his death. Now, six years after his death, Matthew J. Bruccoli, professor of English at the University of South Carolina, offers a reassessment of the controversial author's work. In a critical biography called The O'Hara Concern (Random House, 417 pp., $15.00), Bruccoli argues that O'Hara must rank as one of America's best novelists and our greatest writer of short stories. In a final chapter, Bruccoli details his reasons. He lists what he considers O'Hara's strongpoints: the "American-ness" of O'Hara's fiction; his ability...
...poet. It was not a claim that went unchallenged, for some maintain that Thomas Kinsella had and continues to hold the title hands down. But since W.B. Yeats's death in 1939, Clarke was Ireland's unofficial poet laureate. The Collected Poems of Austin Clarke (Oxford University Press, 568 pp., $20.00) celebrates the recognition of Clarke's poetry that came so slowly during his life...
...result is "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" (589 pp., $10), which Pantheon published this week. "Working" is Terkel's third book of interviews on a theme. His first, "Division Street: America" (1967) was, he says, "a report from an American village, Chicago," modeled after Jan Myrdal's "Report From a Chinese Village," which Pantheon published several years earlier. His second interview book, "Hard Times" (1970), was an oral history of the Depression...
...Bermuda (p. 4); a Peugeot (p. 5); the LIFE Library of Photography (p. 8); an Emerson Permacolor television set (p. 11); a sterling silver Sheaffer pen (p. 12); a General Electric Potscrubber dishwasher (p. 25); Seagram's Crown Royal (p. 26); flying with Jo on National Airlines (pp. 41-42a); some De Beers Consolidated diamonds (p. 56); a Kodak Carousel projector (p. 76); and a Gran Torino Hardtop with bucket seats, vinyl roof, wheel trim rings and white sidewalls (back cover...
Contrariwise, Professor Philip E. Verson in his Intelligence and Cultural Environment (London: Methuen, 1969), pp. 13-14, writes...