Harold Bloom

Literature As Legacy: Writing Across The Generational Divide

Laura Paull | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: San Francisco Jewish Community Center, Saul Bellow, Philip Levine Poet Laureate, Joyce Carol Oates, American Writers, Vassar College, I.B.SInger, WIlliam Gifford, Philip Levine, Jewish American Writers, Nicole Krauss, Cynthia Ozick, Brett Singer, I.J. SInger, Harold Bloom, Peter Orner, Writing, Bookfest, San Francisco News

Literature as a creator of dialogues that deepen and explore the dynamic between different generations is a theme of a multi-day event at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center his weekend, through Tuesday, Feb. 28.

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A Danielewski Halloween

Tom Teicholz | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Redcat, Halloween, Jdrf, Tad Danielewski, Franco, Pearl S. Buck, Mark Z. Danielewski, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Yale, Arts News

On Halloween this year, for one night only, Mark Z. Danielewski will conduct a staged reading with shadow puppets and musical accompaniment of his Halloween-set story, The Fifty Year Sword.

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The Essential Jewish Canon

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Jewish Text, Zohar, Jewish Book List, Talmud, Harold Bloom, Jewish Scholarship, Jewish Reading List, American Judaism, Jewish Literacy, Understanding Judaism, Jewish Canon, Jewish Books, Judaism, Essential Jewish Texts, Religion News

What follows is the list of what I consider to be the most essential works (available in English) to engender or enhance Jewish literacy for the present generation.

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The Help: Redemption, and Genuflecting at the Altar of Ourselves

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Minorities in Books, Literary Themes, Oprah Winfrey, James Frey Oprah, The Help, Minorities in Movies, Novels, Redemption, Sin and Redemption in Literature, Redemption as Literary Theme, Harold Bloom, Books, Fiction, Books News

The Help is a blockbuster that doesn't just redeem its white heroine -- it redeems all of white America right along with her.

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SHOCKING Professor Sex Scandals

Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Professor Sex Scandals, Colby College, University of New Mexico, Shocking Professor Sex Scandals, Harold Bloom, David Epstein, College News

Ideally, professors are supposed to be shaping the minds of our youth. Sometimes however, a professor's duty as a teacher can be compromised by their ...

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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov, Author Criticism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Insulting Authors, Harold Bloom, Author Insults, Gustave Flaubert, Books News

Sigh. Authors just don’t insult each other like they used to. Sure, Martin Amis raised some eyebrows when he claimed he would need brain damage to w...

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Getting Ripped for Summer Reading: My Summer Shape-Up Plan

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Sigrid Nunez, Cape Cod Noir, Books, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, Work-Outs, Summer Reading, Sempre Susan, Summer tanTolstoy and the Purple Chair, Now You See Me, Exercise, Pittsburgh Noir, The Hare With Amber Eyes, SJ Bolton, Anatomy of Influence, Toby Wilkinson, Coppertone, Harold Bloom, Edmund De Waal, Books News

I've vanquished the flab in my bookshelves, oiled the joints on my bifocal sunglasses, and bulked up the piles of new reading material.

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Book Review Roundup: A Web Of Lies And The Getty's Ethically Unsound Undertakings

Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: The London Train, Book Review Roundup, Reviews, Missing, Cornelia Maude Spelman, Chasing Aphrodite, James Stewart, Book Reviews, Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville, The Anatomy of Influence, Tessa Hadley, Tangled Webs, Harold Bloom, Books News

"Tangled Webs" by James Stewart Washington Post As in earlier books such as “Blood Sport” and “Den of Thieves,” Stewart offers riveting ...

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Harold Bloom: 'The Anatomy Of Influence'

nytimes.com | SAM TANENHAUS | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Anatomy of Influence, Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare, Reviews, Literary Critic, Yale Critics, Books News

At the age of 80, with almost 40 books behind him and nearly as many accumulated honors, Harold Bloom has written, in "The Anatomy of Influence," a ki...

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5 Ways Shakespeare Changed The World

nypost.com | STEPHEN MARCHE | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Writers, Lincoln, Major League Baseball, Julius Caesar, Sigmund Freud, Shakespeare, The Bard, Harold Bloom, Influential Writers, Books News

William Shakespeare was the most influential writer who ever lived. Even those who haven't read his plays know his words, from "to be or not to be" to...

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King Lear Speaks Out on Health Care

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Morality, King Lear, Shakespeare, Health Care, Harold Bloom, Impact News

Those in high places don't care enough about -- or are oblivious to -- the serious hardships afflicting the poor and, increasingly, the middle class. Our current health care crisis provides an obvious example.

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Tolstoy's Stories

Richard Pevear | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Pevear, Tolstoy Translations, Russian Literature, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, Books, Translation, Harold Bloom, Translating, Dostoevsky, Books News

Tolstoy has been better served by translators than other Russian writers, but there is still the challenge of coming closer to the original, of catching more of its specific stylistic qualities than previous translations have done.

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