Entertainment & Arts
Book review: ‘Nightwoods’
Oct. 23, 2011
Books
The Bobby-Soxer by Hortense Calisher (Doubleday: $17.95) Since this is a book about family and legend and antecedents, perhaps it’s best to mention first this novel’s own literary cousins: Hortense Calisher here employs the laconic “Southernisms” of Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Conner and Sallie Bingham, and the glittering sexual strangeness of Djuna Barnes in her “Nightwood.”
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Food
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Archives
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