[I am back working through my prison journal. It is out of order. The date in the title is the date it was written.Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. I hope this is not confusing. What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. sch 4/23/2025]
Last night on NPR's Studio 360 there was a segment on Willa Cather - particularly her My Antonia. I may need to re-read Cather. Listening to the segment, I realized how I read her when I was trying to learn form, and what I heard left me thinking she needs be read for substance.
Along these same lines, but about Booth Tarkington: a recent New Yorker reviewed the Library of America's editions of Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons. I had three people tell me about the review. I read the article with more than a little wincing. Tarkington came off as a better person than a writer. I may have also undervalued his Alice Adams.
I still believe Raintree County should be the one great Indiana novel, for all that will upset the sentimentalists and the prudes.
A comparison between Tarkington and Cather came to mind last night - and Indiana did not come away looking so good.
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