O'Hara Sermons and Soda-Water The Girl on the Baggage Truck
John O'Hara collects three novellas set in Gibbsville Pennsylvania during the 1920s and 1930s as seen from 1960. The plots center on Jim Malloy, Polly, Ethridge Williamson, Charlotte Sears the baggage truck girl, and a web of affair, marriage, and accidents with a moderately happy ending. The foreword defends the novella form and the collection showcases O'Hara's straightforward storytelling.
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Gibbsville
O'Hara
Byron
Jim Malloy
Charley Ellis
Polly
Ethridge Williamson
Long Island Williamsons
Boston
Williamsons
Hunterden
Malloy
Charlotte Sears
Hollywood
Bobbie
Johnny White
Pete
Ichabod
McCrea
Quincey in Bourjaily Novel Confessions of a Spent Youth
The hero Quincey, a mixed heritage young man, narrates a seven year span from 1939 to 1946 through sexual escapades in West Virginia New York New England the Middle East Europe and Japan. He remains brash candid yet ends in boredom and detachment with politics and religion strangers to him.
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Ulysses Snow Davids
Quincey
Lebanon
Quince
Dial
Vance Bourjaily
West Virginia
New York
New England
Middle East
Europe
Japan
Cowboy Harris
Roanoke
Controversial Signs EZRA POUND Biography Reviewed
Charles Norman’s study of Ezra Pound profiles the controversial poet, detailing Pound’s influence on writers like T. S. Eliot and his later wartime actions. The book traces Pound’s artistry, antisemitism, and political stances while examining his complex impact on modern literature and the figures shaping it.
Reading list of new library fiction and non fiction
A public library announces new arrivals including fiction titles such as The Monitor Affair Taps at Reveille The Day Before Thunder The Hands of Cormac Joyce Echo Answers The Child Buyer and Go to Heaven New nonfiction titles cover politics Christmas management and disputed questions plus My First Fifty Years in Politics and The Book of Christmas
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Public Library
Clarence Buddington Kelland
Bart Spicer
Reveille
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Margaret Culkin Banning
John Hersey
Cormac Joyce
Leonard Wibberly
Joe Martin
Margaret Ickis
Fulton Sheen
NEW Science OF Management
Herbert Simon
Thomas Merton
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations overview review
The review praises Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations a 1500 page set covering 119 nations with maps charts and illustrations. It notes editors James T. Shotwell and Benjamin A. Cohen and highlights country profiles on details from capitals and economies to languages and government. It cites page counts for several nations and quotes brief observations about Cuba France India and the Maldive Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
James T. Shotwell
Benjamin A. Cohen
United States
Britain
Russia
Japan
India
France
Cuba
Maldive Islands
de Gaulle
Maldive
Indian Ocean
W. G. Rogers
Unlikely MAD SHADOWS Review by Marie Claire Blais
A Canadian author presents a quirky tale blending fairy tale and sentimental romance. Characters include Patrice Isabelle-Marie Louise Lanz and Michael the blind boy, with a narrator questioning the author’s age and intent. The tone calls the work an absurd, not Gothic, parody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrice
Iful
Isabelle-Marie
Louise
Lanz
Michael
Isabelle
Revel’s As for Italy skewers Italian life and culture
Jean Francois Revel’s As for Italy railing prose attacks Italian writers, culture and politics while sparing no one. Revel calls Italians dull and the church press influence oppressive, with sharp digs at Croce and Latins, and ends with a wish that Italians never visit America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Jean- Francois Revel
Anthony Rhodes
Dial
Croce
Rome
Paris
Best Sellers List Includes Classics And Biographies
Hawaii and Michener titles join novels by Drury and di Lampedusa. Reviews note The Waste Makers by Packard and Born Free by Adamson among top sellers. Other entries include Kennedy or Nixon by Schlesinger and The Conscience of a Conservative by Goldwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adamson
Kennedy
Nixon
Goldwater
Jarvis
Earliest US coal reference on Joliet Marquette map
A 1673 map from the Joliet and Marquette expedition notes coal presence along the Mississippi River. This is the earliest known reference to coal in the United States and signals early colonial awareness of fossil fuel resources.
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United States
Joliet and Marquette
Mississippi River
Diary of Korean Orphan Girl Becomes Best Seller in Tokyo
The diary by Sueko Yasumoto, a 10 year old Korean orphan in Kyushu, Japan, about family tragedy, has sold over half a million copies. It has inspired a film stage play and radio drama, surpassing translations of The Diary of Anne Frank. Royalties funded a two story Kobe home for Sueko and her siblings.
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Tokyo
Nianchan
Anne Frank
Sueko Yasumoto
Kobunsha Co
Sueko
Takaichi
Japan
Kyushu
Kunsan
Korea
Five Rome books atop fall list in the Civil War era
A selection of Rome themed books blooms in the fall list led by Michael Grant’s The World of Rome. Other notable volumes include Gabrielle Faure Gardens of Rome Aubrey Menens Rome for Ourselves Beverly Pepper See Rome and Eat and Ed Fisher Wine Women and Word.
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Eternal City
Rome
Michael Grant
Gabriel Faure
Aubrey Menen
McGraw- Hill
Beverly Pepper
John Hobart
Bill Pepper
Doubleday
Ed Fisher
Macmillan
Grant
The
Seven Hills
B. C
Tiberius
Gaius Gracchus
Caracalla
Edipus Piscatorius
Blastula
Un-Roman Activities Committee
Washington
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William Carlos Williams
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Roosevelt
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High Point
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Worldmark Encyclopedia OF the Nations
Worldmark
Harper
Marie Claire Blais
Little, Brown
Carlo Levi
Christ
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Marini
Fellini
Rossellini
Marseilles
Hawaii
Michener
Packard
Jarrett
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Horace
Ovid
Epictetus
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