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My newest Signets ❤️! I planned on posting for #frenchlitfriday today and #signetsaturday tomorrow but I mixed up the backgrounds so I'm posing them on the wrong days. Stay tuned tomorrow for my actual #frenchlitfriday post. ~ #oldgoriot #balzac #johnohara #chekhov #ibsen https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Yz_VTg4Oj/?igshid=187k89dcthka5

"Life goes on, and for the sake of verisimilitude and realism, you cannot possibly give the impression of an ending: you must let something hang. A cheap interpretation of that would be to say that you must always leave a chance for a sequel. People die, love dies, but life does not die, and so long as people live, stories must have life at the end. #fragment #quotes #johnohara #john_o_hara #selfreminder #selfhealing #selftransformation #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #naturelover #skyline #travelbook #travelblogger #travelwriter #traveladdict #travelphotography #writingproject #writingchallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNIi3IpWz0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Why, clutch my pearls! 6 years after finishing The New York Stories and Appointment in Samarra, I finally picked this up. Found this first edition on a Brooklyn stoop some years back. Cheers to the master of tongue-in-cheek humor and social critic. #loveychilds #johnohara #bookreview #igreads #instabooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NvQVKJYLsGUZsjHFtDtRbrpMvH-Rfz73yo7w0/?igshid=18iuuo113uszw

The American novelist and short-story writer 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐚 (1905-1970) had an extraordinary ability to reproduce the look and sound of contemporary America.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ He worked as ship steward, railroad freight clerk, gas meter reader, amusement park guard, soda jerk, and press agent but, more importantly, as a journalist, first in Pottsville and then in New York City. He also wrote magazine pieces for Time and the New Yorker and worked briefly as a literary secretary and as a press agent.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ O'Hara's first and best novel, is the tragedy of Julian English, who initiates his own downfall by throwing a drink into the face of a social superior. A compelling study of status in Pennsylvania society, it illustrates what critic Lionel Trilling describes as O'Hara's dominant theme: "the imagination of society as some strange sentient organism which acts by laws of its own being which are not to be understood." Upon the success of the novel, O'Hara began work as a Hollywood film writer, his chief occupation until the mid-1940s.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ =⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Source: "John O'Hara." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: Biography⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ #pgcc #pgcclibrary #IrishAmericanHeritageMonth #johnohara #appointmentinsamarra (at Prince George's Community College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9jkmJcnI1r/?igshid=9d25hog1wzdp

John O'Hara: A Signed Pach Brothers Photograph buff.ly/2VTU2W2 #JohnOHara #PachBrothers https://www.instagram.com/p/B9a-bgphAh-/?igshid=1ffvq7ohqxuv1

#johnohara #sermonsandsodawater Found at the #fieldlibrarybookstore (at Peekskill, New York)

Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara (1934) ❤️❤️❤️💔 While reading Appointment in Samarra, I was struck by how similar to F Scott Fitzgerald I found it to be. It turns out I am not the first reviewer to reach that conclusion, in fact Fran Liebowitz is quoted as referring to O'Hara as the "real F Scott Fitzgerald". Samarra is a Depression-era book in the truest sense of the word, with O'Hara tapping into the collective despondency and fear felt by Americans at the time. Follow Julian and Caroline English, the book opens following Julian's first act of self destruction. He begins by throwing a drink and blacking the eye of one the town's most influential men. Caroline worries what this will mean for them financially, whereas Julian makes a few feeble attempts to save them, but ultimately lays waste to his own life, one misstep at a time. Once opened, this book is difficult to put down, as the reader becomes engrossed in Julian English's downfall, as one is engrossed by a devastation that cannot be stopped. Definitely a good read for those who love 20th Century American Literature. I should also mention that this book was a recommendation of The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe. #appointmentinsamarra #johnohara #fiction #1934 #julianenglish #carolineenglish #endofyourlifebookclub #willschwalbe #fitzgerald #classic #classicliterature #bibliophile #readersofinstagram #readers #read #reader #reading #book #books #bookclub #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #kalidesautelsreads