Touchstones

"Touchstones" - the title derives from Vargas Llosa's column in the Spanish newspaper El País, where many of these essays first appeared - gathers the Nobel laureate's writings on Woolf, Hemingway, Grass, Gauguin, Pinochet and postwar Iraq.

NYT > Home Page By IHSAN TAYLOR 2011

I never quite bought Gunn's idea of SF being the literature of discontinuity, but after reading his essay on "Touchstones" I understand.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

I never quite bought Gunn's idea of SF being the literature of discontinuity, but after reading his essay on "Touchstones" I understand.

Campbell Conference Report 2005

His second book, "Touchstones," was a monograph of images from all over Scotland.

Knox 2008

The Children's Literature Association, an organization of teachers, scholars, librarians, editors, writers, illustrators, and parents interested in encouraging the serious study of children's literature, created the Phoenix Award as an outgrowth of the Association's Touchstones Committee.

But What About the Old Books? 2007

As for certain infelicities, one example will suffice: talking about the danger of becoming a soured hack in "A Writer's Touchstones," Resnick says he didn't want to become "the mirror image of Malzberg's unhappy writer."

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The students of men and manners find him as good as meat and drink; but we cannot all be Touchstones, and perhaps, on the whole, it would be well if he were buried.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

We are accustomed to more physically attractive Touchstones, fools with finer bodies, and yet this keen-minded, stout person spoke his lines with such pertness and spontaneity that they rarely failed of their proper effect.

The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

_From a California National Bank_: "Please find enclosed order for five copies of 'Touchstones of Success,' which we will keep in the bank for the present and future young men to read at their leisure time at the expense of the bank."

What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874

Touchstones, all, of a mode of living that we should strive for but won't ever achieve.

Gizmodo Brian Barrett 2011