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...Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in the Birth of a Nation.' " The Torrents of Spring also informs the public of the weaknesses and strengths of Sherwood Anderson...
...later the Saturday Re-view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth to give any vivid impression of these writers. His sympathies were never deeply engaged by the new writing of the Hemingway generation, and many of his generalizations about it will seem pallid to literature...
Archbishop John B. Lamy (one of the Indians' best friends, whom Willa Cather portrayed in Death Comes for the Archbishop) brought death to the art of santos-making. The Archbishop decreed, when he arrived at Santa Fe in 1851, that the barbaric santos be destroyed, and replaced by conventional images and chromes imported from Lamy's native France. More than a thousand santos-today mostly to be found in southwestern museums-survived the Archbishop...
...admit your People Editor had me fooled [TIME, Jan. 21]. Upon reading his reference to "Willa Stockton Gather's famed short story, The Lost Lady or the Tiger," I vigorously rubbed my hands together in glee. . . . Then the truth struck me. ... How many others bit, not seeing the subtle humor . . . in that footnote, and sent letters of correction loaded with self-satisfaction...
...been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense of national achievement. By the '305 the bang and sparkle of this literary Fourth of July was as spent...