Author Archives: Heartwood
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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Heartwood 1:6 – Su Tung-p’o
Selected Poems of Su Tung-p’o by Su Shi (1037-1101) 145 pgs. Copper Canyon Press, 1994. Trans. by Burton Watson To feel an intimate connection with a writer from a distant time and culture is one of the most inexplicable and … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:5 – Hopscotch
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (1918 – 1984) 564 pgs. Pantheon Books, 1986 Originally published, 1963. Trans. by Gregory Rabassa, 1966. That this is not your typical novel is signaled by a prefatory note in a “Table of Instructions” stating that the book … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:4 – Désirée
Désirée by Annemarie Selinko (1914-1986) 594 pgs. Sourcebooks, 2010. Originally published, 1951. Translated from the German, 1953. A number one New York Times bestseller in 1953, this historical novel is based on a true story and is known to have … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:3 – Claude McKay
Home to Harlem 340 pgs. Northeastern University Press, 1928 Banana Bottom 315 pgs. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1933 by Claude McKay (1889-1948) Claude McKay, a Jamaica-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, was considered one of the great literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:2 – The Glass Bees
The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger (1895 – 1998) 209 pgs. New York Review Books, 2000. Originally published, 1957. Trans. by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Mayer, 1960. In stature, The Glass Bees is equal to the technocracies of Orwell, Huxley, … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:1 – Pearls Astray
Pearls Astray: a Romantic Episode of the Last Democracy by Constance M. Warren 158 pgs. Small, Maynard and Company, 1920 Illustrations by J. Harleston Parker Pierpont lounged in a long chair on the terrace in a suit of Panama … Continue reading
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