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 native of Iowa, KARL, HARSHBARGERhas spent his summers working out on farms, in labor camps, on construction, in the wheat fields of Oregon, or selling electrical appliances from door to door in the country by motor scooter. He began writing in his junior year at the University of Oregon, and it was at Eugene that the Editor of the Atlantic met him and became interested in his work.
The Muted Harp
From his Irish grandmother, JAMES REYNOLDS inherited u wonderful assortment of Irish ghost, stories, an intimate knowledge of Palladian architecture, and a sure touch with horses. Today he lives for part of the year in Virginia and for the winter months in New York City, and for the rest is on the wing gathering material for his novels, his short stories, and his volumes of travel. His illustrated volume, Fabulous Spain, has just come from the press, and his new novel, Haunt of Eagles, will be ready in the early autumn. Meantime, he is writing and sketching in Italy.
The Treasure Game
An English novelist who, like Arnold Bennett, came from the Midlands, and who now lives in Kent, H. E. BATES has had a wide reading on both sides of the Atlantic with his novel Fair Stood the Wind for France, a story of British fivers forced doten in occupied territory; with his books about Burma and Kashmir (lhe Purple Plain and The Scarlet Sword); and last year with his novel of contemporary England. Love for Lydia. Recently Mr. Bates has been visiting the West Indies gathering source material for a new history of the Islands, and on his return he paused at Boston to correct the proofs oj this story.
The Delegates
A native Texan, DILLON ANDERSON established himself as one of the oldest young laicyers in Houston before he took time off for his fiction. In 1951, he published his first booh, I and Claudie, a salty Texas narrative of two happy wanderers who fortunately do not take themselves or their victims too seriously, (dint Hightower and his oxlike companion have adventured their way in and out of the oil country, Texas politics, hurricanes, revivals, and state fairs — and now they are off again.
A Stop on the Way to Texas
WARD DORRANCE, a Missourian by birth and a Southerner by heritage and sympathy, is now living in England. Before the war, he had four books published, one of which was written on a Guggenheim Fellowship. During the war he served in the Arctic as aide to Rear-Admiral E. G. Rose, USCG, and since then he has devoted himself exclusively to writing short stories. His work has appeared in both the 0. Henry and Foley story collections.
A Shadow to Leave Behind
CRARY MOORE is the pen name of a Young Bostonian-by-adoption. She says, “My three favorite things are horses, parties, and indolence. Writing runs a had fourth. I took it up to avoid exercise, which is very popular around here.” This is Miss Moore’s third story to be published in the Atlantic. In her second, she introduced the Crane sisters, Emily and Betsy, to our readers.
Moses on Canal Street
The scales of IRA WOLFER’S career have tipped alternately between creative fiction and journalism. A newspaperman at fifteen, Wolfert rose through the ranks from copy boy to war correspondent, and in 1943 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Battle of the Solomons, based on his coverage of the Guadalcanal action. That same year appeared his first novel, Tucker’s People. ”Moses on Canal Street" is an excerpt from Mr. Wolfert’s new novel. Married Men, to be published this autumn by Simon & Schuster. The event described here occurs in the early nineties, during the honeymoon of Married Men’s protagonist, Wes Olmstead.