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  • The name Winesburg for the fictional college and town came from Sherwood Anderson's stories.

    Roth's 'Indignation' Is Short, But Not Small 2009

  • And like the short stories in Winesburg, Ohio, they form a cycle in which each entry stands gracefully on its own while enriching a larger story.

    2006 December 03 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • The name Winesburg for the fictional college and town came from Sherwood Anderson's stories.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2009

  • The name Winesburg for the fictional college and town came from Sherwood Anderson's stories.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2009

  • Yet if even a century after Sherwood Anderson's chronicles of Winesburg, Ohio, the quintessential small American town is still offering such gifts to the reader as "Olive Kitteridge," perhaps the impending demise of such a place -- and such literature -- has been greatly exaggerated.

    Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010

  • Yet if even a century after Sherwood Anderson's chronicles of Winesburg, Ohio, the quintessential small American town is still offering such gifts to the reader as "Olive Kitteridge," perhaps the impending demise of such a place -- and such literature -- has been greatly exaggerated.

    Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010

  • When his wife became pregnant, the young author went to New York and got a publisher's advance for a book called "The Martian Chronicles," a 1950 work constructed, he says, on the structural framework of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and the emotional blueprint of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio."

    Tales From Inner Space Tom Nolan 2010

  • When his wife became pregnant, the young author went to New York and got a publisher's advance for a book called "The Martian Chronicles," a 1950 work constructed, he says, on the structural framework of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and the emotional blueprint of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio."

    Tales From Inner Space Tom Nolan 2010

  • No one ever mentions Sherwood Anderson, but his Winesburg, Ohio remains the most important American short story collection of the 20th century, as important to us as Dubliners is to the Brits.

    Anis Shivani: The New Henry Miller Speaks Out: Interview With Eric Miles Williamson, Author of 'Welcome to Oakland' 2010

  • When his wife became pregnant, the young author went to New York and got a publisher's advance for a book called "The Martian Chronicles," a 1950 work constructed, he says, on the structural framework of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and the emotional blueprint of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio."

    Tales From Inner Space Tom Nolan 2010

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