Days Gone By October 31, 2023
100 years ago — 1923 Schuylkill Valley: Dr. Edward Flanigan, Daniel Slattery, Michael McHale, John Stutz and John Egan, all of New Philadelphia, left Wednesday for a three-day hunting trip
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100 years ago — 1923 Schuylkill Valley: Dr. Edward Flanigan, Daniel Slattery, Michael McHale, John Stutz and John Egan, all of New Philadelphia, left Wednesday for a three-day hunting trip
From the NS archive: The wound and the bow 27 October 1978: On the precariousness of friendship between writers. In this 1978 piece, the author and academic Malcolm Bradbury considered two recent publications – “Scott and Ernest” by Matthew J Bruccoli (Bodley Head) and “Ernest Hemingway and His World” by Anthony Burgess (Thames & Hudson) – and the topic of literary friendships. How can a writer friend be trusted, when one knows how easy it would be for them to trivialise their life in fiction? F Scott Fitzgerald, Bradbury wrote, “was foolish enough to consult Hemingway on the s...