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12/10/2024

Great Video about the Stanley Rose Bookstore!!!!!

This is the thirty-seventh installment of Place of Places, a chapter by chapter analysis contextualizing William Saroyan's 1972 memoir, Places Where I've Don...

12/10/2024

Before the movable feast ended at the Stanley Rose Bookstore/Musso's backroom, it stopped in NYC, before the talking pictures brought all the writers west to Hollywood.

A group of writers who gathered at a New York hotel shaped culture together.Made by JAK Documentary for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, 2007.Wr...

06/08/2024

Objects sold from Gerald and Sara Murphy's heirlooms.

American expatriates Sara and Gerald Murphy lived in Paris and traveled widely in Europe with their three children throughout the 1920s. Their holiday home i...

04/19/2024

How American Jesuits helped forge modern Catholicism around the world At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church's expansion around the world. In the United States especially, foreign-born Jesuits built universities and schools, aided Catholic immigrants, and served as missionaries. This book traces this nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American Jesuits in Manila. These stories place the Jesuits at the center of the worldwide clash between Catholics and liberal nationalists and reveal how the Jesuits not only revived their own order but made modern Catholicism more global. The result is a major contribution to modern global history and an invaluable examination of the meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic age.

02/25/2024

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

02/25/2024

Dostoevsky is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential novelists of the Golden Age of Russian literature. Leo Tolstoy admired Dostoevsky's works and Albert Einstein called Dostoevsky a "great religious writer" who explored "the mystery of spiritual existence". Sigmund Freud ranked Dostoevsky second only to Shakespeare as a creative writer and called The Brothers Karamazov "the most magnificent novel ever written".
Friedrich Nietzsche called Dostoevsky "the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn" and described him as being "among the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life."
In his posthumous collection of sketches A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway stated that in Dostoevsky "there were things believable and not to be believed, but some so true that they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know". James Joyce praised Dostoevsky's prose: "... he is the man more than any other who has created modern prose and intensified it to its present-day pitch. It was his explosive power which shattered the Victorian novel with its simpering maidens and ordered commonplaces; books which were without imagination or violence." In her essay The Russian Point of View, Virginia Woolf said, "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading". Franz Kafka called Dostoevsky his "blood-relative" and was heavily influenced by his works, particularly The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, both of which profoundly influenced The Trial. Hermann Hesse enjoyed Dostoevsky's work and said reading him is like a "glimpse into the havoc". The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun wrote that "no one has analyzed the complicated human structure as Dostoyevsky. His psychologic sense is overwhelming and visionary." Writers associated with cultural movements such as surrealism, existentialism, and The Beats cite Dostoevsky as an influence, and he is regarded as a forerunner to Russian symbolism, expressionism, and psychoanalysis.

Rowan Williams on the faith of Dostoevsky

12/28/2023

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Musso & Frank Grill opened in 1919 as Frank’s Francois Cafe and has since become the most iconic restaurant in Los Angeles. It has a fun story and has remain...

05/04/2023

He was a swaggering, foul mouthed, hard-drinking Texan who liked to brag that he never read.