Posts Tagged ‘new yorker’
27 dicembre 2012

Neal Cassady (1926-1968)
di Scott Staton per il New Yorker
The critic Morris Dickstein once said that Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is more important as a myth or a cultural marker than as a novel. Its story of exhilaration and adventure resonates with young readers in the abstract, but few will deny its stretches of tedium, or fail to note the misogyny and narcissism expressed by the misbehaving male characters. Read the rest of this entry ?
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9 luglio 2012

In the last three decades of the Soviet Union’s existence, Ray Bradbury was the country’s most famous and widely read American writer. Only Isaac Asimov, Ernest Hemingway, and J. D. Salinger enjoyed somewhat comparable degrees of popularity. Read the rest of this entry ?
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