October 2019

Glenway Wescott by George Platt Lynes

A Lost (But Incredibly Perceptive) Psychological Novel: The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott

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Post published:October 16, 2019
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The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story is a favorite so far among my students in the "Forgotten Books" class I'm teaching this semester. It is set in the South of France in the late 1920s but was written in 1940, long after its author, Glenway Wescott, had left France. My students and I all agreed that it is a beautiful, unjustly forgotten book.…

A Lost Story of the Rise of Fascism: Kay Boyle’s “The White Horses of Vienna”

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Post published:October 5, 2019
Post category:My Other Writing Reading Teaching Women Writers WWI and WWII
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Last week in my “Forgotten Books” class we read some stories from Kay Boyle’s The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories. The title story dominated our discussion. (See the end for where to find "The White Horses of Vienna.") It was published in Harper’s magazine in 1935 and won the O. Henry Award for best story that year. Today it’s a rather…