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  • Makes me recall Thomas Wolfe's phrase: "Our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern because a London cutpurse went unhung."

    Neck-punches, people ... Rogers 2005

  • Most modern U.S. writers, from Frank Norris to Thomas Wolfe, are now mostly forgotten and little read.

    Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011

  • Dean has perfect pitch when it comes to sending up the British working class, but she sneaks in just enough grace to give her characters a chance to prove Thomas Wolfe wrong: As long as you don't expect anyone to get out the good china, you can go home again.

    Five books for Valentine's Day Yvonne Zipp 2011

  • Dean has perfect pitch when it comes to sending up the British working class, but she sneaks in just enough grace to give her characters a chance to prove Thomas Wolfe wrong: As long as you don't expect anyone to get out the good china, you can go home again.

    Five books for Valentine's Day Yvonne Zipp 2011

  • He also has a distinct penchant for grandiosity and the syrupy sublime, as when he writes about Thomas Wolfe, whom he admires inordinately, that he "kept the howling s and incoherences and bawling" in "the moonless wastelands of sleep when the ores of greatness move through the soft cells of all artists."

    The Life Well-Read Eric Ormsby 2011

  • The Thomas Wolfe adage, "You can't go home again," turns out not to be completely true, as Michael Cuesta's new film, The Roadie, illustrates.

    Cynthia Ellis: Trifecta Interview: Michael Cuesta Directs Ron Eldard and Jill Hennessy in The Roadie: Queens, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Cynthia Ellis 2011

  • Most modern U.S. writers, from Frank Norris to Thomas Wolfe, are now mostly forgotten and little read.

    Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011

  • Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, among others The extensive correspondence between Perkins and Rawlings, whose novel, "The Yearling," won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, has been collected in a book, "Max and Marjorie," an engrossing peek behind the curtains of a great literary collaboration.

    Dear Book Lover: Words of Literary Inspiration Cynthia Crossen 2011

  • The Thomas Wolfe adage, "You can't go home again," turns out not to be completely true, as Michael Cuesta's new film, The Roadie, illustrates.

    Cynthia Ellis: Trifecta Interview: Michael Cuesta Directs Ron Eldard and Jill Hennessy in The Roadie: Queens, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Cynthia Ellis 2011

  • Originally opened as one of the city's first cooperatives, then converted into a hotel in 1905, Hotel Chelsea has been home to a creative class, from Dylan Thomas to Thomas Wolfe .

    Hotel Chelsea's New Proprietor Craig Karmin 2011

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