Some Strange Corners of Our Country
Some Strange Corners of Our Country

Author: Charles Fletcher Lummis

Publisher:

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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Lummis's prose portraits of the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Montezuma Castle, and other sites reflect the author's knowledge of Southwest anthropology and history.

Some Strange Corners of Our Country
Some Strange Corners of Our Country

Author: Charles Lummis

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0816533148

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Lummis's prose portraits of the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Montezuma Castle, and other sites reflect the author's knowledge of Southwest anthropology and history.

Odd Jobs
Odd Jobs

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 1025

ISBN-13: 0679645853

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To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.