Twentieth Century Writers – Old Magazine Articles

A Bewildering American Phenomenon (Scribner’s Magazine, 1937)

This well-read writer recalls the great novels leading up to the publication of Gone With The Wind (1936). Along the way, she lists some of the many foibles of The Great American Reading Public – in the end she recognizes that she shouldn’t have been surprised at all that the historic romance was an all-time-best-seller and that Margaret Mitchell was awarded a Pulitzer.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald at Twenty-Five (The American Magazine, 1922)

At the peak of his fame, F. Scott Fitzgerald penned this opinion piece for a popular U.S. magazine:

For one thing, I do not like old people – They are always talking about their experience, and very few of them have any! – But it is the old folks that run the world; so they try to hide the fact that only young people are attractive or important.

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The Work of J.D. Salinger (The Hibbert Journal, 1964)

A Literary journal’s review of The Catcher in the Rye as well as the short stories contained in Salinger’s collection Franny and Zooey.

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An Interview With James Joyce (Vanity Fair, 1922)

James Joyce (1882 – 1941) refers to many different subjects in this 1922 interview, among them was Ulysses, his recently released book. The interview was written by Djuna Barnes (1892 – 1982); avant-garde writer, illustrator and playwright.

The 1922 New York Times review of Ulysses can be read here…

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An Interview With James Joyce (Vanity Fair, 1922)

The 1922 New York Times review of Ulysses can be read here…

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Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (NY Times, 1920)

A remarkable book is this latest by Sinclair Lewis. A novel, yes, but so unusual as not to fall easily into a class. There is practically no plot, yet the book is absorbing. It is so much like life itself, so extraordinarily real. These people are actual folk, and there was never better dialogue written than their revealing talk.

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A Review of Saroyan’s The Adventures of Wesley Jackson(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)

The 1947 review of William Saroyan’s war novel, The Adventures of Wesley Jackson:

What makes the novel good is what makes Saroyan good. In this case his wonderful satires on army life, wangling , and the weird fauns of his private universe. What makes it bad is the overdose of soliloquies, hymns and plain mutterings on love, death life and the appeasement of divine wrath by means of scapegoat.

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