new post re Dreiser’s lover Marie Pergain (“co-miscreant” in the toothpick incident)

 

Pergain

 

Readers of my previous post

Roger W. Smith, “Theodore Dreiser, Ervin Nyiregyházi, Helen Richardson, and Marie Pergain”

Roger W. Smith, “Theodore Dreiser, Ervin Nyiregyházi, Helen Richardson, and Marie Pergain”

 

Will be interested in a new post by Paul R. Spitzzeri that I am posting with his permission:

The Spirit of Radio: A Mailing Card for the KFI Radio Station, Los Angeles, Postmarked 4 December 1923

by Paul R. Spitzzeri, Museum Director, Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum / President, Historical Resources, Inc., City of Industry, California

The Spirit of Radio: A Mailing Card for the KFI Radio Station, Los Angeles, Postmarked 4 December 1923

 

Alfred Kazin review of Dreiser, “The American Diaries”

 

Alfred Kazin review of Dreiser, ‘American Diaries’ – NYTBR 8-22-1982

 

posted here (PDF above):

“The Records of an American Claimant”

review of Theodore Dreiser, The American Diaries

edited by Thomas P. Riggio

reviewed by Alfred Kazin

The New York Times Book Review

August 22, 1982

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

  December 2023

 

 

 

the origins of Sister Carrie

 

Dreiser to Mencken 5-13-1916

 

This letter from Dreiser to H. L. Mencken is very informative.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   December 2023

“Dreiser’s ‘Greatest’ is Not His Best”

 

review of An American Tragedy (Dreiser’s greatest, not best) – Helena Daily Independent 1-10-1926

 

Posted here is a review of An American Tragedy that has hitherto been overlooked. It was not included in Theodore Dreiser: The Critical Reception, edited by Jack Salzman (1972).

“Dreiser’s ‘Greatest’ is Not His Best”

The Helena Daily Independent

January 10, 1926

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   December 2023