1930s american literature

This Sybille Bedford Biography Is Worthy of Its Subject

This Sybille Bedford Biography Is Worthy of Its Subject

Masterful writer Sybille Bedford finally gets a biography as rich and expansive as her life from Selina Hastings.

On John O’Hara’s ‘Appointment in Samarra’, ‘Butterfield 8’, ‘Hope of Heaven’, and ‘Pal Joey’

On John O’Hara’s ‘Appointment in Samarra’, ‘Butterfield 8’, ‘Hope of Heaven’, and ‘Pal Joey’

Party girls, cads, and hopeless dreamers from a distant but eternally familiar past -- John O'Hara was a writer who deserved his place in the bleacher section of Great American Writers.