Atlantic Reads: Screen People With Megan Garber
Staff writer Megan Garber and Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic’s executive editor, discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency.
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A Ride on the Short Dog
Poet and short-story Writer, JAMES STILL, tins dour much of his creative writing in that remote. picturesque stronghold, the Kentucky mountains. For years he was the librarian of the Hindman Settlement School at the forks of Troublesome Creek, and he has been the laureate of the mountaineers. In 1940 he shared honors with Thomas Wolfe in the Southern Authors’ Award, for his novel River of Larlh.
The Absent Ones
Born in Berkeley, California, on October 22, 1930, GAY GAER is now finishing her senior year at Radcliffe. She began to write fiction in high school, and last year a group of her stories were submitted in a course conducted by Dr. Albert Guérard at Harvard. She has recently been engaged on a longer work for the course in English composition given by Archibald MacLeish. We published her first story. “The Sisters,” in the March Atlantic.
The Lilies
Artist and writer, PATRICK MORGAN teaches art at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at the Fogg Museum at Harvard. His painting time he divides between New England and Canada; he has had a number of one-man shows - the most recent, the exhibition of his paintings at Wellesley College in January and February of this year. His short stories for the Atlantic have a graphic detail and a disarming directness; one of them, “The Heifer,”was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, 1949.
The King
WALTER MACKEN and his blonde young wife live their country life on the west coast of Ireland, and when in Dublin are to be found in the neighborhood of the Abbey Theatre, where he is one of the leading dramatists and actors. He is the author of two plays and three novels — the third. Rain on the Wind (Macmillan), being the May selection of the Literary Guild. Mr. Macken writes with a native exuberance; and despite the pressure of Eire’s censorship, he feels that Irish writers will find their best themes and do their best work if their roots are in home soil. Sean O’Faolain and Mary Lavin are two other Atlantic contributors who are with him in this.
The Drums of Glen Tub
One of Britain’s most able career diplomatists, ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR,Lord Inverchapel, was Ambassador in Baghdad, 1935-1938, in China, 1938-1942, in Moscow, 1942-1945, and in Washington, 1946-1948. He entered the British diplomatic service in 1906, served in the Scots Guards in the First World War, and then with distinction in the Foreign Office. Now has retired to his native Scotland, where he farms and occasionally adds to his collection of true ghost stories. This is the third in the series he is writing for the Atlantic.
Weekend at Grimsby
An American novelist who has done much of her writing in Europe, MARTHA GELLHORN wrote her first novel in Paris at the age of twenty-three. As a correspondent she covered the Civil War in Spain; Munich; Czechoslovakia; Finland; and the war in China before Pearl Harbor. During If World War II, she reported from England, Italy, France, Holland, and Germany. She is now living and writing in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she completed her most recent novel, Wine of Astonishment.
The Midnight Spinners
An American of Irish antecedents, JAMES REYNOLDS is an artist, sportsman, and country gentleman as much at home in Dablin as in Virginia. Like his grandmother before him, he is an expert on Irish ghosts; and on his recent return from Eire he stopped off at Boston to discuss with us a new series of ghost stories, of which this is the second to appear in the Atlantic. Meantime his first novel, The Grand Wide Way, published by the Creative Age Press, is meeting with a very favorable reception.
The Sisters
Born in Berkeley, California, on October 22, 1930.GAY GAKR is /loirin Iwr senior year at Radcliffe. She had never written a word of fiction until last year, when her first short stories, of which this is one, were submitted in a course conducted by Dr. Ilbert Garrard of Harvard. She is now engaged on a longer piece of work for the course in English composition given by Irchibabl MacLeish. The \ l Ian lie is delighted to present her as one of its Youngest contributors and one icho will be heard from regularly in the months ahead.
The Receiver
A native Texan tune thriving, as a corporation lawyer in Houston. DILLON ANDKRSON had been talking short stories about Texas long before he teas per stunted to put them down on paper. With his first story, “The Revival.” which appeared in the Atlantic for June. 1919. he embarked upon a series about two meandering Texans who live by their wits but don ‘t aheavs win. Clint Hightower and his “assistant” Claudie have attracted favorable attention as jar ivesl as Hollywood.
The Laughing Laundress
Artist, sportsman, and country gentleman, JAMES REYNOLDSis a painter of murals, an expert on Pattadian architecture, and a connoisseur of Irish ghosts. His beautifully illustrated volume Ghosts in Irish Houses. which combines his two loves, has met with an enthusiastic reception in this country, as has his second volume. Gallery of Ghosts, which goes further abroad to find its themes in India, Restoration England, and in Maine.