The ‘Time’ of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
In 1926 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, a 45-year-old former schoolteacher from Springfield, Kentucky, published her first novel. The Time of Man came out to great acclaim; it was reviewed widely, admired here and abroad by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Glenway Wescott,...
Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Fisherman
The eight nudists arrested near Battle Creek, Michigan, had an advocate in the novelist and fishing writer Robert Traver. His disapproval fell not upon them but upon the police officers involved in the arrests. He called one of them a “deputized window-peeper” and...
On Brooklyn’s Side
New York City does not normally figure in the regionalist imagination, either conservative or liberal. It is self- and other-described as the original melting pot, the place where people move when they are getting away from somewhere else, to land in a no-man’s land...
What About Booth?
Newton Booth Tarkington, Neglected Hoosier During a recent lecture, the eminent and usually trustworthy literary critic Joseph Epstein befuddled at least one audience member (me) by referring to Theodore Dreiser as the “greatest American author of the twentieth...The Conservative Exiles’ Reading List
The isle of Elba, just off the coast from Tuscany, a friend who visited there has assured me, is palmy, balmy, serene—a great place for a retreat of the mind and the spirit. I plan to stay in this part of the world, but as I climb aboard a skiff for my own private...
Today is the 4th anniversary of @ubookman editor Gerald Russello. Please pray for him.
@KirkCenter is sponsoring its annual Russello Lecture on 12/8 at FordhamU in NYC. @JamesPanero to speak on Russell Kirk's "urbanity." More info and registration here:
