James Branch Cabell

Most of this was common sense or obvious, but a few good recommendations and observations were made, with one that really stuck with me, though I don't know exactly how true it is: that in the 1920s in England and the U.S. the popular, middlebrow books were fantasies, and that by the mid-1930s this was no longer true, that realism had taken over, and the previous writers such as James Branch Cabell were forgotten.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Most of this was common sense or obvious, but a few good recommendations and observations were made, with one that really stuck with me, though I don't know exactly how true it is: that in the 1920s in England and the U.S. the popular, middlebrow books were fantasies, and that by the mid-1930s this was no longer true, that realism had taken over, and the previous writers such as James Branch Cabell were forgotten.

Readercon 16: Day 1 2005

Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell may be one of the most deeply cynical books that I have ever read.

An Adventure of Cynicism Karen Burnham 2010

Your 11:30 AM comment reminded me of James Branch Cabell and Joni Mitchell, both in the same thought.

"Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday the Guantanamo detention center is a well-run, professional facility that will be difficult to close..." Ann Althouse 2009

We not only visited cemeteries, we passed by the former house of weird writer James Branch Cabell, and visited the Poe Museum.

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

Well, I just wasted half an hour trying to track down a James Branch Cabell quote from Jurgen.

Archive 2009-02-08 Sean Craven 2009

No single author not Lord Dunsany, not James Branch Cabell, not MZB, not CS Lewis, not Sylvia Townsend Warner created my preferences for writing and reading.

Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

We not only visited cemeteries, we passed by the former house of weird writer James Branch Cabell, and visited the Poe Museum.

Reporting from the Road: Richmond, the Poe Museum, and Fountain Bookstore Omnivoracious 2009

No single author not Lord Dunsany, not James Branch Cabell, not MZB, not CS Lewis, not Sylvia Townsend Warner created my preferences for writing and reading.

gillpolack: Good news for Masques writers: the Canb gillpolack 2009

One never hears of treatises on it by George Moore or James Branch Cabell, but the pedagogues, male and female, are at it all the time.

Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009