1955

The year of 1955 CE.

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Inherit the Wind

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E Lee
Contemporary American Literature Theatre

Lawrence and Lee make a powerful statement about what it means to stand up for what is right in the face of an overpowering multitude fixed on carrying on in the wrong.

2024’s Favourites

Elias Canetti, Heather McCalden, Hisham Matar, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E Lee, SJ Perelman
Contemporary 21st Century 20th Century International Literature Memoir Non-Fiction Short Story Theatre

A New Tradition Maybe? This year the holiday season proved strangely elusive, and then, when it finally felt like it arrived, it was fraught with problems. Wesker had a bad weigh in. First, my lovely spouse was sick, then I fell ill and am still not well two weeks later. There were so many blizzards. […]

Women Crime Writers

Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens, Dorothy B Hughes, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Helen Eustis, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, Vera Caspary
Wartime Contemporary Post-War American Crime Noir

Even the whitest of picket fences can hide a twisting darkness. And that very pressure could itself serve as one of the most complex themes of noir — that of dreams deferred and decisions made with extreme regret.

Crime Novels American Noir of the 1950s

Charles Willeford, Chester Himes, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith
Contemporary American Crime Noir

Here we are moving away from looming dread of war and toward the disillusionment of what was waiting for those that returned from overseas.

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin
Contemporary American Non-Fiction

Every essay is a painstakingly, achingly beautiful construction of argument. From word choice to phrasing, he has a way of driving to the point, but also doing so with a biting simplicity.

The October Country

Ray Bradbury
Contemporary American Horror Short Story

There’s no doubt that when I think of spooky stories, I think of Ray Bradbury. His narratives are referenced time and time again and have influenced countless writers in turn.