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The New Austerities
''The New Austerities'' is a 1994 novel by the American writer Tito Perdue. It is a prequel to his first novel, ''Lee''. Publication history The novel was first published in 1994 by Peachtree Press. A new edition was published by Standard American in 2023. Reception ''Publishers Weekly'' notes Perdue's "magically evocative descriptive powers, pungent wit and iconoclastic point of view." In the ''New York Press'', Jim Knipfel notes approvingly that, since Perdue’s debut, ''Lee'', his "writing had grown progressively textured and more savage." Elsewhere, Knipfel writes that "Perdue's craftsmanship and descriptive prose remains unmatched by most any writer I can think of today." In the ''Los Angeles Times'', Dick Roraback finds Lee "engaging character" but complains of Perdue's eccentric diction. In ''Chronicles'', Thomas Fleming judges ''The New Austerities'', and Perdue’s fiction in general, "some of the best satire on contemporary America" and "novels which can hold th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Perdue
Tito Perdue (born 16 August 1938) is an American novelist. His works include his 1991 debut ''Lee''. Personal life Perdue was born Albert Perdue to American parents in Chile, where his father worked as an electrical engineer for the Braden Copper Company. The family returned to the United States in 1941, upon the country's entering the War. Perdue was brought up in Anniston, Alabama.Library of Congress Linked Data Service, "Perdue, Tito." https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91013525.html (accessed 12 May 2025) He graduated from Indian Springs School in 1956. He attended Antioch College for a year before he was expelled for cohabiting with a fellow student, Judy Clark. They married in 1957.Who's Who of American Women' (New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2006), p. 1256. Perdue received a BA in English literature from the University of Texas, and an MA in modern European history and an MLS from Indiana University. He then worked as an assistant professor and librarian at univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee (novel)
''Lee'' is a 1991 novel by the American writer Tito Perdue. It tells the story of an angry and well-read septuagenarian, Leland "Lee" Pefley, who returns to his hometown in Alabama after many years in the North. Publication history The book was published on August 15, 1991 by Four Walls Eight Windows. It was reissued in paperback in 2007 by the Overlook Press to coincide with the publication of '' Fields of Asphodel''. A new edition was published by Arktos in 2019. Reception ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote: "Steeped in Greek classics, spouting cultured allusions to such subjects as Persian painting and Dostoyevski, Lee fancies himself a chastiser of humanity, satirist of the New South, a self-ordained Nietzschean prophet of the crumbling of the West. ... A solipsistic little parable of spiritual self-delusion, the novel starts out interestingly but sinks under the weight of its own pretensions." ''Kirkus Reviews'' found that Perdue "writes convincingly and iconoclastically about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. History Nineteenth century The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly'' was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country. In 1878, Leypoldt sold ''The Publishers' Weekly'' to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Press
''New York Press'' was a free alternative weekly in New York City, which was published from 1988 to 2011. The ''Press'' strove to create a rivalry with the ''Village Voice''. ''Press'' editors claimed to have tried to hire away writer Nat Hentoff from the ''Voice''. Liz Trotta of ''The Washington Post'' compared the rivalry to a similar sniping between certain publications in the eighteenth-century British press, such as the ''Analytical Review'' and its self-styled nemesis, the ''Anti-Jacobin Review''. The founder, Russ Smith (publisher), Russ Smith, was a conservative who wrote a long column called "Mugger" in every issue, but did not promote just a right-wing viewpoint in the publication. The paper's weekly circulation in 2006 topped 100,000, compared to about 250,000 for the ''Village Voice'', but this total fell to 20,000 by the end of the paper's run. The ''Press'' touted a Manhattan-focused, controlled distribution system while a good portion of the ''Village Voice''s ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Knipfel
Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel) is an American novelist, autobiographer, and journalist. A native of Wisconsin, Knipfel, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, is the author of three memoirs, ''Slackjaw'', ''Quitting the Nairobi Trio'', and ''Ruining It for Everybody''; as well as two novels, ''The Buzzing'', and ''Noogie's Time to Shine''. He wrote news stories, film and music reviews, the crime blotter, and feature articles until June 13, 2006, for the weekly alternative newspaper ''New York Press''. He also wrote the long-running "Slackjaw" column for the ''Press''. The first edition of "Slackjaw" appeared on October 25, 1987, in the ''Welcomat'', a Philadelphia weekly (later renamed the ''Philadelphia Weekly''), where he also reviewed restaurants and art exhibits. Youth and early career Knipfel was born on June 2, 1965, in Grand Forks, North Dakota on the American air base where his father was then stationed. Before he was a year old, the Knipfel family moved to Green Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Magazine Of American Culture
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fleming (political Writer)
Thomas Fleming (born 1945) is a traditionalist Catholic writer, former president of the Rockford Institute, and former editor of '' Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture'', a monthly paleoconservative political magazine. Fleming has been described as a leading figure in developing neo-Confederate ideology. He was a founding member of the League of the South, and a founding editor of '' Southern Partisan'' magazine in 1979, but later left both organizations. Biography Thomas Fleming was awarded a doctorate in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing his dissertation on Attic Greek lyric poetry, and until joining a series of conservative groups, taught Latin at a small, private middle school in South Carolina. In addition to editing, Fleming has written on topics concerning the literature of pagan Greece as well as political issues. Fleming was introduced to the paleoconservative public by Robert W. Whitaker of South Carolina in 1982. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronicles (magazine)
''Chronicles'' is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the Charlemagne Institute and associated with paleoconservative views. Its full current name is ''Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture''. It was founded in 1977 by the Rockford Institute. Today, the journal is published by the successor organization Charlemagne Institute. Since 2021, Paul Gottfried is the editor-in-chief. ''Chronicles'' has had close ties to the neo-Confederate movement.''''' The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in 2017 that ''Chronicles'' "caters to the more intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement". History In the first years since inception in 1977, the magazine was an anticommunist bi-monthly called ''Chronicles of Culture'', edited by Leopold Tyrmand (1920–85), pen name of Jan Andrzej Stanislaw Kowalski, a Polish novelist and co-founder of the Rockford Institute who had previously written for ''The New Yorker''. In its first decade, the magazine grew to some 5,000 subsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fields Of Asphodel (novel)
''Fields of Asphodel'' is a 2007 novel by the American writer Tito Perdue. It picks up the story of Leland "Lee" Pefley where Perdue's first novel, ''Lee'', left off. Publication history The novel was first published in 2007 by the Overlook Press simultaneously with the reissue of Perdue's first novel, ''Lee''.Antoine Wilson"The Misanthrope,"''Los Angeles Times'' (15 July 2007). A new edition was published by Standard American in 2023. Reception ''Publishers Weekly'' praises the book's "funny scenes and arresting lines." In the ''Los Angeles Times'', Antoine Wilson praises its "utterly charming and brilliantly comic penultimate scene" but also complains of "tone-deaf caricature" in passages where "satirical elements take center stage." Both ''Kirkus Reviews'' and ''Publishers Weekly'' compare the novel to those of Samuel Beckett; but the latter finds that it lacks Beckett’s "lyricism." In the ''Quarterly Review'', Derek Turner judges it "without a doubt the strangest" of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterlife
The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's Stream of consciousness (psychology), stream of consciousness or Personal identity, identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, which carries with it one's personal identity. In some views, this continued existence takes place in a Supernatural, spiritual realm, while in others, the individual may be reborn into World#Religion, this world and begin the life cycle over again in a process referred to as reincarnation, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or otherworld. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, Western esotericism, esotericism, and metaphy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 American Novels
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Charter, Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day. Events January * January 1 ** The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. ** Beginning of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. * January 8 – ''Soyuz TM-18'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. * January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. * January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
