Showing posts with label O'HARA John. Show all posts
Showing posts with label O'HARA John. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

He’ll drink anything and you know it - some drinking in Appointment in Samarra, and some jazz - he was screaming with jazz

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John O’Hara wrote  Appointment in Samarra in 1934, but it is set in 1930.  The main character in 1930 is just about O’Hara’s age in 1934, c...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

And then there were people. Terrible people - John O'Hara fills up Appointment in Samarra

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Appointment in Samarra has the restless energy that a jumpy 28-year old pours into a first novel.  The three-day crash of a doomed protagon...
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Monday, September 28, 2020

So far nothing terrible had occurred - John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra

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  Dolce Bellezza suggested a readalong of John O’Hara’s first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), and although I did not do much to prom...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

John O'Hara domesticates Hemingway - It had been a very fine experience

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By using such details, O’Hara almost single-handedly invented what came to be known as the New Yorker story.   (Frank MacShane, “Introducti...
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Friday, July 31, 2020

John O'Hara's pandemic story "The Doctor's Son" - If you wanted an ice cream soda you had to have it put in a cardboard container

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The first story in Collected Stories of John O’Hara (1984) is “The Doctor’s Son” (1935), about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.   Several mon...
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