Ring Lardner

Lardner, Ring - (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885–1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919. His first collection of short stories, You Know Me, Al (1916) revealed his talent for the racy sports idiom he made famous. Among his other early volumes of short stories are Gullible's Travels (1917) Read More...

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The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner
by Ring Lardner. 151 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Birth of a Wonder Man

Chapter 2: The Boy Grew Older

Chapter 3: Young Man Goes West

Chapter 4: Bright College Years

Chapter 6: How I Threw Big Party for Jane Austen

Chapter 7: New York's Noon Life

Chapter 8: Football Trick Uncorked

Chapter 9: Yale, Beaten by Blind Boys

Chapter 10: A Gay Christmas Eve

Chapter 11: How I Swam the Hudson

Chapter 12: I Transfer from Princeton To Medicine

Chapter 13: My Medical Career

Chapter 14: My 2 Big Inventions

Chapter 15: Sport Writer on the Rabies

Chapter 16: Star Reporter for the Rabies

Chapter 17: Promoted to Contest Editor

Chapter 18: Hallowe'En in Polyandry Hospital

Chapter 19: A Soft Job Job

Chapter 20: Dan Boone's Joke

Chapter 21: I First Marry in Central Park-- Lapland Lady for Bride

Chapter 22: On My Honeymoon

Chapter 23: My Romance Blasted

Chapter 24: My Divorce Trial

Chapter 25: Even Judge Ogle Smiled

Chapter 26: I Revolutionize Theatre Business

Chapter 27: A Post-Mortem Message
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Many Minds ("Beyond Grammar" by Ring W. Lardner begins on p. 167)
by Carl Van Doren. 248 pgs.

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I. Subsoil

The American Rhythm

Old Wisdom in a New Tongue

Prudence Militant

The Soil of the Puritans

The Great and Good Tradition

The Tower of Irony

II. New Growths

Youth and Wings

Smartness and Light

Flame and Slag

Salvation with Jazz

Beyond Grammar

Day in and Day Out

III. Postscript

The Friendly Enemy

Bibliographies

Bibliographies

Index
3 .

Reading I've Liked: A Personal Selection Drawn from Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing ("The Love Nest" by Ring Lardner begins on p. 410)
by Clifton Fadiman. 912 pgs.

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Presenting

Acknowledgments

My Life is an Open Book: Confessions and Digressions of an Incurable

Eve Curie

Four Years in a Shed [From "Madame Curie"]

Alexander Woollcott

Entrance Fee

Ludwig Bemelmans

Putzi

Thomas Mann

Mario and the Magician

Thomas Mann

Snow [From "The Magic Mountain"]

George R. Leighton

Arminia Evans Avery [From "America's Growing Pains"]

Vincent Mcchugh

Vincent McChugh Commentary

John Dos Passos

Tin Lizzie [From "U.S.A."]

The Campers at Kitty Hawk [From "U.S.A."]

Meester Veelson [From "U.S.A."]

W. Somerset Maugham

The Treasure

The Facts of Life

George Santayana

The Unknowable

H. W. Fowler

Excerpts from "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage"

C. K. Ogden

The New Britannica

Frank Moore Colby

Trials of an Encyclopedist

Confessions of a Gallomaniac

James Thurber

My Life and Hard Times

R. B. Cunninghame Graham

Success

Virginia Woolf

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

Hon. John M. Woolsey

A Decision of the United States District Court Rendered December 6, 1933, by Hon. John M. Woolsey Lifting the Ban on "Ulysses"

E. M. Forster

My Own Centenary

The Consolations of History

Sarah Orne Jewett

A White Heron

Ring Lardner

The Love Nest

Ernest Hemingway

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

John Steinbeck

The Red Pony

Dust [From "The Grapes of Wrath"]

The Turtle [From "The Grapes of Wrath"]

M. F. K. Fisher

The Standing and the Waiting

César

Christina Stead

The Salzburg Tales

Jules Romains

A Little Boy's Long Journey [From "Men of Good Will"]

Portrait of France in July '14 [From "Men of Good Will"]

How Verdun Managed to Hold Out [From "Men of Good Will"]

Roger Martin Du Gard

An Excerpt from "The World of the Thibaults"

A. E. Coppard

Felix Tincler

Arabesque: The Mouse

Dusky Ruth

W. F. Harvey

August Heat

Max Beerbohm

James Pethel

W. Somerset Maugham

Lord Mountdrago

Conrad Aiken

Silent Snow, Secret Snow

E. B. White

The Door

S. J. Perelman

Is There an Osteosynchrondroitrician in the House?

Bertrand Russell

A Free Man's Worship

Katherine Anne Porter

Noon Wine

Kin Hubbard

The Sayings of Abe Martin

Donald Culross Peattie

An Almanac for Moderns

Thomas Mann

A Letter 'to the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Excerpt from a Speech at a Dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York on February 15, 1913
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Ring Lardner and the Other
by Douglas Robinson. 326 pgs.

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Ring Lardner and the Other is actually two books, mutually embedded. The first is about Ring Lardner: a long reading of a single Lardner short story, "Who Dealt?", a briefer look at his life and work, and an exploration of his reception. The second is about the "Other," in an expanded Lacanian sense: the speaking of various unconscious voices (mother and father and child, culture and anarchy, majority and minority) through literary characters and their authors and readers. The Lardner book explores the contradictions of Lardner's patriarchal masculinity--how such a dour, sexist alcoholic who hated humor and bad grammar could have created such a rich body of minoritarian writing, steeped in the emergent voices of women and the lower middle class--and the social functions served by Lardner's writing in twentieth-century America. The other book exfoliates Lacan's germinal concept of the Other by interweaving it with a series of theoretical formulations by Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari, and others. Robinson's book is an important reappraisal of a critically neglected American writer of the teens and twenties. The book includes an essay by Ellen Gardiner.

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Introduction

I: Who Dealt?

1: The Ascetic Lover

2: Voicing the Dummy

II: Who Wrote?

3: The Conflicted Writer

4: Becoming Minor

III: Who Read?

5: Lardner's Dual Audience

6: Reading Beyond the Ending

Conclusion

Appendix a Ring Lardner, "Who Dealt?"

Appendix B "Engendered in Melancholy": Ring Lardner's "Who Dealt?"

Notes

Works Cited

Index
5 .

Ring Lardner: A Biography
by Donald Elder. 417 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

List of Ring Lardner's Published Work

Index
6 .

The Main Stream ("Ring Lardner: Hard-Boiled Americans" begins on p. 168)
by Stuart Pratt Sherman. 244 pgs.

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Contents

Disinterested? No!

Carl Sandburg's Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson: an English Interpretation

Thomas Jefferson: a Revaluation

Thoreau Returns from Abroad

Burrowing into Burroughs

William Beebe as Merman

Paul Bunyan and the Blue Ox

Mark Twain's Last Phase

Poultney Bigelow: a Superstatesman On The Perfect Life

Dean Briggs: the Beautiful Dean From The Life

Nicholas Murray Butler: Why Are We Agin the Government?

Middle-Class Strategy or a Call to The Converted

Mr. Dreiser in Tragic Realism

Mark Sullivan on the Days of Our Youth

Thomas Beer: Our Own Petronius at Last

Ring Lardner: Hard-Boiled Americans

Llewelyn Powys: Five Years with The American Intelligentsia

George Moore: an Irish Epicure

Walter De La Mare

Edith Wharton: Costuming the Passions

Anatole France

An American Version of Montaigne
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The Reader's Role in Ring Lardner's Rhetoric, in Studies in Short Fiction
by Brian T. Cowlishaw. 10 pgs.

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Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print (Discussion of Ring Lardner begins on p. 166)
by Ronald Weber. 324 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Prologue CLEVER AUTHORS OF ACCEPTABLE WORK: Living by Words on America's Grub Street

One Light Artillery of the Intellect: The Emergence of the Versatile Magazinists

Two Cacoethes Scribendi: Women Writers among the Paying Periodicals

Three Laying Pipes Fiction Factories at Full Throttle

Four That Precious Over-Note: Fictioneers among the Pulps, Slicks, and Paperback Originals

Five Sublime Tramps: Newspaper Journalism and the Dream of the Writing Life

Six Writing for the Millions: Newspaper Syndicates Expand the Market

Seven Sporting Life Field, Stream, and Playing Field as Material

Eight Facts of the Matter the Vogue of Biography, History, and Current Events

Nine Brass Tacks How to Succeed at the Writing Game

Ten Gatekeepers Dominant Editors in the Glory Days of Magazines

Epilogue SWEET DEAL Writing for Hire in a New Age

NOTES

SOURCES

INDEX

A Note about the Author
9 .

A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature ("Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)" begins on p. 276)
by Dorothy Nyren, Dorothy Nyren . 554 pgs.

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Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
10 .

A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre ("Ring Lardner" begins on p. 161)
by Thomas B. Connery. 410 pgs.

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..."This book promises to be a useful reference source and would be a welcome addition to public and high school libraries....The book's focus makes it unique..." Booklist

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Copyright Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE Introduction

Discovering A Literary Form

DISCOVERING A LITERARY FORM

Editor's Note

PART TWO The Writers

Mark Twain

Primary Sources

Richard Harding Davis

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Stephen Crane

Primary Sources

Jacob A. Riis

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Abraham Cahan

PRIMARY SOURCES

Secondary Sources

Secondary Sources

Lincoln Steffens

PRIMARY SOURCES

Secondary Sources

George Ade

Secondary Sources

Hutchins Hapgood

Primary Sources

William Hard

Primary Sources

Theodore Dreiser

Primary Sources

John Reed

Primary Sources

Ring Lardner

Primary Sources

Damon Runyon

Primary Sources

Dorothy Day

Primary Sources

Ernest Hemingway

Primary Sources

James Agee

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Joseph Mitchell

Primary Sources

John Hersey

Primary Sources

John Steinbeck

Primary Sources

Lillian Ross

Primary Resources

Truman Capote

Secondary Sources

PRIMARY SOURCES

Tom Wolfe

Primary Sources

Gay Talase

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Hunter's S. Thompson

Secondary Sources

PRIMARY SOURCES

Michael Herr

Secondary Sources

PRIMARY SOURCE

Norman Mailer

Primary Sources

Joe Eszterhas

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

C.D.B. Bryan

Primary Sources

Jane Kramer

Richard Ben Cramer

Secondary Sources

John McPehee

Primary Sources

Joan Didion

Primary Sources

Bob Greene

Primary Sources

Joe McGinniss

Primary Sources

Tracy Kidder

Primary Sources

SECONDARY SOURCES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
11 .

I Hear America ...: Literature in the United States since 1900 ("Ring Lardner" begins on p. 296)
by Vernon Loggins. 382 pgs.

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I: Introductory

II: Unpremeditated Art

III: Questioning Despair

IV: Cleaving to the Dream

V: Dominant Primordial

VI: Back of the Mask

VII: Manners

VIII: Regional Variations

IX: Iconoclasm

X: Revolution

XI: Cap and Bells

XII: Intellectualism and Experiment

XIII: Mindful of the Millions

Recommended for Reading

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Index

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