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William Faulkner , The Art of Fiction No. 12
Mr. Faulkner’s self portrait, 1956. William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the “u”), author of The White Rose of Memphis. Soon the family moved to Oxford, thirty-five miles away, where young Faulkner, although he was a voracious reader, failed to earn enough credits to be graduated from the local high school.
Alta Journal ’s Literary Rediscoveries of 2025
Bringing a fresh set of eyes to seven classic works. By Anita FelicelliPublished: Dec 22, 2025 1 WEST OF EDEN, BY JEAN STEIN, FEATURED IN AN ESSAY BY SAM WASSON “West of Eden is the greatest book of its kind I’ve ever read, though I still don’t know what kind it is: history, memoir, anthropology of a lost or living Hollywood, or some amalgam of the above.
West of Eden: The rise and fall of Jack L. Warner’s paradise.
Raised by Polish immigrant parents in the late eighteen-hundreds, in Baltimore, Maryland, London, Ontario, and Youngstown, Ohio, the Warner brothers—Harry, Sam, Albert, and Jack—founded their first official studio in Hollywood in 1918, and in 1923 they created Warner Bros. Pictures, with Harry as president, Jack and Sam as vice-presidents in charge of production, and Albert as treasurer.
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
Interviewed by Jean Stein William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the “u”), author of The White Rose of Memphis. Soon the family moved to Oxford, thirty-five miles away, where young Faulkner, although he was a voracious reader, failed to earn enough credits to be graduated from the local high school.
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1954. He was educated at Oxford, where he read English. Later he trained as a child psychotherapist and would become the principal at Charing Cross Hospital, in London. He also worked for seventeen years in the National Health Service; his one stated professional regret is leaving the public sector. His current private practice consists mainly of adults who see him at hourly intervals, mostly for fifty minutes each. Phillips does not e-mail.
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
The critic Fredric Jameson died at the age of ninety on September 22, 2024, a little more than a year after the first of the three conversations that form the basis of the text below. In spite of Jameson’s years, the news came as something of a shock, given the productivity he kept up into his tenth decade.
The Art of Fiction No. 12
Mr. Faulkner’s self portrait, 1956. William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the “u”), author of The White Rose of Memphis. Soon the family moved to Oxford, thirty-five miles away, where young Faulkner, although he was a voracious reader, failed to earn enough credits to be graduated from the local high school.
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
I met Jane Gardam when she was ninety, at her home in the Kentish village of Sandwich, England. Haven House, where Gardam has lived since 1987, was originally a pilgrims’ hostel and is made up of several medieval structures, but has been modernized over the years and today is graciously proportioned, orderly, and comfortable.
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Getting to Know Bronson van Wyck
Photography by Hannah Thomson Growing up on a family farm in Tuckerman, Arkansas, where the nearest neighbors—his grandparents—lived miles away, Bronson van Wyck learned the art of entertaining as a way to endure the ennui of life “in the middle of nowhere.” That early coping mechanism now sends the Yale grad all over the world—often between New York and Palm Beach—to design and produce high-end events.
Edie | Grove Atlantic
“Is anyone capable of picking up . . . Edie and putting it down before the very last page?” –Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review “The ultimate oral history and still the most objectively cool book I’ve ever read. It’s perfectly structured and the most important book about America in the 1960s.” –Sloane Crosley, T: The New York Times Style Magazine “Jean Stein’s 1982 book Edie: American Girl, edited with George Plimpton . . .
An Oral History of the Tropicana, the 50s Nightlife Destination in Cuba
A____na Gloria Varona, showgirl: We hid behind a gold curtain when the passengers came on board, like we were backstage at a real cabaret. My dance partner Rolando and I were set to put on a live floor show in the front of the cabin. We even had a band from Tropicana with us—a pianist, a bongo player, a drummer, and a trumpet player. The front seats had been taken out so the musicians could all fit in with their instruments. Who knows how they got that piano on the plane?
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
Mr. Faulkner’s self portrait, 1956. William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the “u”), author of The White Rose of Memphis. Soon the family moved to Oxford, thirty-five miles away, where young Faulkner, although he was a voracious reader, failed to earn enough credits to be graduated from the local high school.
The New York Review of Books
For a brief spell in the mid-Sixties, Edie Sedgwick was the debutante princess of piss-elegance, an Andy Warhol “superstar” whose fashion trademark was a snowy white mink draped over a dimestore t-shirt. Edie was always abuzz with debbie enthusiasm—as Warhol himself put it, even when she was asleep, her hands were wide awake.
Best-Selling Author Dies in Leap Off NYC Building: Cops
(Newser) – Best-selling author and literary editor Jean Stein died Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports. An NYPD official says the 83-year-old jumped from the 15th floor of a building in Manhattan. "She was pretty depressed," a longtime friend says.
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
David McCullough “Nothing good was ever written in a large room,” David McCullough says, and so his own office has been reduced to a windowed shed in the backyard of his Martha’s Vineyard home. Known as “the bookshop,” the shed does not have a telephone or running water. Its primary contents are a Royal typewriter, a green banker’s lamp, and a desk, which McCullough keeps control over by “flushing out” the loose papers after each chapter is finished.
WILEF Global Chair Betiayn Tursi's Summer Reading Recommendations - The WILEF Tribune
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (Simon & Schuster) Leading psychologist Angela Duckworth argues the key to achievement is not simply talent, but rather what she calls “grit.” On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate (and Only Slightly Bossy) Legal Guide for Every Stage of a Woman’s Life by Lisa Green (HarperCollins) Legal analyst and former attorney Lisa Green offers a witty, pointed and empowering legal guide covering all important issues in women’s lives,...
Travel Books - Best Sellers - Books - April 10, 2016
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Culture Books - Best Sellers - Books - March 13, 2016
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'West of Eden' by Jean Stein: EW review
Stein is partial to writing oral histories—and a yarn-spinning chorus of voices seems particularly fitting for this latest project, the stories of five prominent families who helped make Los Angeles the glamorous, tragic, otherworldly place it is. Descendants and friends, along with famous folks like Joan Didion, Lauren Bacall, and Frank Gehry, reminisce about the Dohenys—a stupendously rich oil clan—and the famous Warner family, giving the book a deliciously gossipy feel.
50 Books of Literary Collage
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We cowrote and coedited Life Is Short — Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity. We're interested in brief prose (short-shorts and mini-essays), but we're also (and even more) devoted to book-length works of literary collage, built out of brief shards. Here are some of our favorite examples of such works. – David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman Speedboat by Renata Adler David learned how to write by reading this book until the spine broke. He typed the entire book twice.
By Melanie Thernstrom, Robert Gottlieb, David Shields, Renata Adler, Sarah Manguso, Arthur Schopenhauer, Eula Biss, Bernard Cooper, Kurt Vonnegut, Jean Stein, Kathryn Harrison, Art Spiegelman, Roland Barthes, Don Paterson, Richard Brautigan, Amy Fusselman, Simon Gray, Elizabeth Hardwick, Blaise Pascal, James Richardson, John D'Agata, Annie Dillard, Eduardo Galeano, Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson Verified, F Scott Fitzgerald, Alan Bennett, E M Forster, Annie Ernaux, Marguerite Duras, Cyril Connolly, Joe Brainard, Joe Wenderoth, D J Waldie, Jean Toomer, Laurence Sterne, Fernando Pessoa, Leonard Michaels, Carole Maso, David Markson, Sven Lindqvist, Michael Lesy, Barry Hannah
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All Havana Broke Lose: An Oral History of Tropicana
Features In the decadent jet-set heaven of 1950s Havana, the only place to be was Tropicana, a pleasure dome where the shows (and showgirls) were dazzling, the gambling was high-stakes, and the revelers included Marlon Brando, Ernest Hemingway, Rita Hayworth, and J.F.K., to name a few.
West of Eden
View this story as it originally appeared » Raised by Polish immigrant parents in the late eighteen-hundreds, in Bal timore, Maryland, London, Ontario, and Youngstown, Ohio, the Warner brothers—Harry, Sam, Albert, and Jack—founded their first official studio in Hollywood in 1918, and in 1923 they created Warner Bros. Pictures, with Harry as president, Jack and Sam as vice-presidents in charge of production, and Albert as treasurer.
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