Author Archives: Heartwood
Heartwood 2:2 – Kelroy
The big literary celebration this year will be the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’ birth (Feb 7), but 2012 also marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the only novel by a little-known American author, Rebecca Rush. Her novel Kelroy was largely overlooked upon its … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:1 – By the Sound
Edward Dorn’s By the Sound revolves around the day-to-day lives of two couples struggling to do more than just scrape by while living in the Skagit valley in 1958. There is some very fine writing about our wetland environment that is … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:14 – Kepler’s Snowflake
The Six-Cornered Snowflake: a New Year’s Gift by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 150 pgs. Paul Dry Books, 2010. Originally pub 1611. Trans. by Jacques Bromberg. Johannes Kepler is best known for unveiling the elliptical orbits of the planets and other laws … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:13 – The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz is an atmospheric and fantastic account of a boy living with his merchant family in a small town in Eastern Poland. The episodic chapters are sensuous explorations of a vividly realized time and place, viewed … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:12 – The Messiah of Stockholm
Bruno Schulz was gunned down by an SS man in his hometown of Drohobycz on November 19, 1942. Schulz lived there quietly as a high school art teacher who secretly wrote fiction. He is now celebrated as one of Eastern … Continue reading
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Canyon Boy
Canyon Boy by Grace Edgington Jordan (1892-1985) 450 pgs. Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1960. If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to live in a tiny rural town in the Northwest, Canyon Boy will give you a very good … Continue reading
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Porgy
The Seattle Opera is currently staging George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and the Seattle Times recently ran an interesting piece by Misha Berson about the history and critical controversies surrounding this musical landmark and the book on which it is based. … Continue reading
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My Uncle Louis
My Uncle Louis by Robert Fontaine 294 pgs. McGraw-Hill, 1953. In much of the fiction from the middle of the last century there is something warm and engaging. Of course, as in all time periods, there were adventurous innovators … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:8 – The Leopard
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) 320 pgs. Pantheon, 1960. Originally published, 1958. Trans. by Archibald Colquhoun. The Leopard is Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of the House of Salina near Palermo, Sicily, and he is a wonderful … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:7 – Diplomatic Pursuits
Diplomatic Pursuits by Joseph von Westphalen (1945- ) 300 pgs. Catbird Press, 1995. Originally published, 1991. Trans. by Melanie Richter-Bernburg, 1995. The trove of diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks began trickling out last year has probably done little to stimulate your literary appetite … Continue reading
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