N-gated Hacker NewsMay 10
🚪📚 So it seems the *Guardian* has discovered the hitherto unknown fact that Henry James had a family—who knew? Maybe next they'll uncover that books have pages. 🙄 #GroundbreakingJournalism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/colm-toibin-how-henry-james-family-tried-to-keep-him-in-the-closet #GroundbreakingJournalism #HenryJames #FamilyDiscovery #LiteraryHumor #MediaCritique #BookNews #HackerNews #ngated
Colm Tóibín: how Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet

After Henry James’s death 100 years ago, his relatives were at pains to remove any hints of his sexuality from his letters and biography

The Guardian
Hacker NewsMay 10

Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/colm-toibin-how-henry-james-family-tried-to-keep-him-in-the-closet

#HackerNews #HenryJames #Closet #Family #Secrets #Literature #History

Colm Tóibín: how Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet

After Henry James’s death 100 years ago, his relatives were at pains to remove any hints of his sexuality from his letters and biography

The Guardian
Martin BihlApr 29
Long-form answers to short-form questions because that’s just how it comes out of my typewriter. My curation of @faris & @rosieyakob’s #StrandsOfGenius at @geniusstealsco: https://shorturl.at/BNH8y #StLouis #HenryJames @Mls @_MontyAlexander @NYCFC @premierleague @FJasmineG
Show threadStan CareyApr 21

"Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost" —Colm Tóibín, The Master

#books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames #memory

Show threadStan CareyApr 19

"When everyone else had fire in their blood, he was calm. So calm that he could neither read nor think, merely bask in the freedom that the afternoon offered, savour, as deeply as he could, this quiet and strange treachery, his own surreptitious withdrawal from the world."

—Colm Tóibín, The Master

#books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames

Stan CareyApr 19

This was on the unread shelf too long, but the wait was worth it. It's uncommonly good.

#books #reading #ColmTóibín #novel #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames

AlessandraApr 15
Tanti auguri di Buon Compleanno 😊 💯 all'ironico conoscitore della società: Henry James! 😊🥳📚☕️🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈. #henryjames
Hacker NewsApr 2

Henry James's American Journey

https://www.chronicle.com/article/henry-jamess-american-journey

#HackerNews #HenryJames #AmericanJourney #Literature #History #Culture

Columbus - FeedsFeb 27
Ohio State Opera Theatre to offer three free productions of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ this weekend - Olivia Hoffman
Ohio State Opera Theatre to offer three free productions of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ this weekend

The Ohio State Opera Theatre will present “The Turn of the Screw,” an opera production based on the 1898 gothic horror novella of the same name by Henry James, this upcoming weekend.   Three performances will be held at Weigel Auditorium — located at 1866 College Road N. — Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 7:30 […]

The Lantern
Martin BihlFeb 24
.@faris & @rosieyakob usually curate “Strands of Genius” but this one time they asked ME to do it and I went off on tangents about #soccer and #henryjames and #stlouis and a bunch of other things. Enticing, right? Check it out here: https://shorturl.at/BNH8y
Strands of Genius: Noah Brier’s BrXnd.ai, Tony Messenger, Library of America

Guest curated by Martin Bihl, Creative Director: 7419 & Editor: The-Agency-Review.com

Strands of Genius