Theodore Dreiser
Penn Libraries Receive $4.25 million gift for Special Collections Center
...Collection. In addition to 800 medieval manuscripts, notable manuscript collections include those of Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Mumford, Marian Anderson, Alma Mahler Werfel, Howard Fast,...
Jami Attenberg's third book mesmerizes
...women at the wheel. At other times, the novel reads like an updated "Sister Carrie" (1900), with Theodore Dreiser's two main characters fused into one. But Attenberg's narrative voice -...
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Darryle Pollack: An American Tragedy
What else can you possible call it? With respect to Theodore Dreiser, no fiction writer could dream up this mess. It would be a great story, if only it weren't real. I didn't intend to...
Short and sharp artfulness
...with women at the wheel. At other times, the novel reads like an updated "Sister Carrie" (1900), with Theodore Dreiser's two main characters fused into one. But Attenberg's narrative...
DJ Taylor: Educating Peter
...Hardy that he had "genius but no talent". The same could be said of my particular American hero Theodore Dreiser, whose An American Tragedy (1925), an 800-page epic of blighted hopes...
Film Noir Festival: Bad but they can't help it
...closes with "A Place in the Sun," winner of six Oscars, a glossy, classy, A-list adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," starring the un-noir-like Elizabeth Taylor...
Theodore Dreiser
...which was made into a film in 1931 and again in 1951. In 1892, when Dreiser began work as a newspaperman he "began to observe a certain type of crime in the United States that...
Secret's out: star spies come in from the cold
...animal crackers bought with the proceeds of a footpath lemonade stand; the author Theodore Dreiser drinking so much vodka he crawled under the table. Their handlers called them Zefir and...
My Kwanzaa
..."we all pull together" as many times as there were people in the room. We were that family from Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," "raising (our) collective voice against the...
Second Reading: John Phillips's 'The Second Happiest Day'
...a teenager in the 1950s, to serious, adult fiction, opening the way for me to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and other writers whom I venerate,...
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones dies at 90
...Jourdan) and "A Farewell to Arms" (with Rock Hudson). In "Carrie," William Wyler's version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie," Miss Jones held the screen well with Laurence...
