Tag Archives: Maxwell Geismar

struggles on the edge of sanity

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dave

American literary criticism, to use Adorno’s term is a great machine, a cultural industry constantly in need of raw material. It is, in fact many machines; press the right button and off the assembly line rolls social consciousness, protest, dissent, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alfred Kazin, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Henry Jenkins, J.D. Salinger, Janet Malcolm, Kenneth Slawenski, Maxwell Geismar, Theodor Adorno, William Weigand | Leave a comment

a seymour misunderstood: hints of envy and terror

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dave

The ambiguity was strongest about Seymour, who is regarded by the surviving Glasses as something of a Holy Man. But there are hints in Franny and Zooey that coexistence with a saint, living or dead, can have its drawbacks and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alfred Kazin, Calvancati Dead of Night, Franz Kafka, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction, Jack Skow, Janet Malcolm, John Updike, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismar, michael redgrave, Paul Levine, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger, William Weigand | Leave a comment

small shares of nobility

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dave

The refusal to accept the status quo in the universe marks not only adolescents; it also marks the saints and, at times, the mad. The connection is not accidental but necessary and functional. The young have the clarity and newness … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Claire Douglas, David Leitch, Donald Barr, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Steiner, Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James Bryan, Jon Volkmer, Josephine Jacobsen, Kenneth Slavenski, Leslie Fielder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maxwell Geismar, Richard Halpern, seymour krim, Sigmund Freud, Warren French, William Wiegland | Leave a comment

J.D : the winsome as unfair advantage

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

A part of the charge of immaturity often brought against J.D. Salinger is the fact that he did not deal with mature love. The implication is that he “escapes” from sex. It is an open question whether this escape is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Carl Strauch, Charles Dickens, David Leitch, Dawn Black, Donald Barr, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, Isa Kapp, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James Bryan, John Updike, Josephine Jacobsen, Kenneth Slawenski, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maxwell Geismar, Paul Levine, seymour krim, Warren French, William Weigand | Leave a comment

blank pages: writing something deep inside

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave

In J.D. Salinger’s work, persons and objects, even when they are part of the commonplace, assumed a certain glow that could not be conveyes in lengthy quotations out of context. It is this quality that most strongly linked Salinger to … Continue reading →