#Tarkington

[davidpatrickjohn]

”It was this," Tuke said. "She's not my style, of course, and I can't imagine her ever saying anything an undazed man could listen to; but she has got a frank, outspoken, straightforward look that's attractive. I mean you can see right away that she'd never let anybody down, that she isn't the slightest bit tricky or catty, wouldn't ever do anybody dirt to get an advantage for herself and that she truly is just what she seems to be — an up-to-the-minute, been-every where, smart-crowd Beauty but a darned good sport and completely on the level.”

Kate was able to look at him scrutinizingly, for, absorbed in his analysis, he gazed frowningly at the wall. He was wholly in earnest; and, although she had a severe temptation to gasp at him, "You didn't even notice her accent?" the impulse had to be downed. Tuke’s revelation of his simplicity, she knew, was only another instance of the ancient and modern but always dumfounding incompetencies o£ men in their witless relations with women.

Tarkington, Kate Fennigate, 1943, p99

#Tarkington #Kate Fennigate #american literature

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Metropolitan magazine, April 1920. Cover by Rolf Armstrong.

Source: Old Imprints

#vintage New York #1920s #Rolf Armstrong #magazines #magazine covers #Metropolitan magazine #Booth Tarkington #Jazz Age #Roaring 20s #Roaring Twenties

[every-character-ever-poll]

LYNETTE TARKINGTON - The Final Girl Support Group

PROPAGANDA:

She's paranoid, she's unhinged, she's right, she's awful, she's justified, she has one (1) friend and he's a plant called Final Plant, she's violent, she's awkward, she's a middle-aged loser and I love her so much

#poll #lynette tarkington #final girl support group #the final girl support group #image included #has propaganda #week one

[tonyvasquez]

A Dreamy Journey Through Wonderland: Central Indiana Dance Ensemble's Captivating "Alice in Wonderland" at the Tarkington Theater

#Alice in Wonderland #Central Indiana Dance Ensemble #Tarkington Theater #Carmel Indiana #Tony Vasquez #Vasquez Photography #Canon Explorer of Light #Canon #Ballet #The Center For The Performing Arts #Nuvo

[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

Booth Tarkington and his poodle Figaro, from the September 4, 1939 LIFE magazine.

(source: LIFE archives)

#booth tarkington #poodle #dogs #writers #life magazine

[exhaled-spirals]

— Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

#quote #booth tarkington #the magnificent ambersons #time #english

[loveboatinsanity]

#rockne tarkington

[schlock-luster-video]

Happy birthday, blaxploitation and cult film icon Rockne Tarkington! (1932 - 2015) Here's some original art inspired by Black Samson and Melinda to celebrate!

#happy birthday #rockne tarkington #blaxploitation film #blaxploitation films #black samson #melinda #the no mercy man #black starlet #the zebra force #death before dishonor #clarence the cross eyed lion #roll of thunder hear my cry #the intruder within #blaxploitation art #blaxploitation movies #blaxploitation #action movie art #action movie #tcm underground #cult film #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

— Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

#Booth Tarkington #The Magnificent Amersons #quotes

[fagrackham]

i do keep certain bits of trivia in my back pocket in case it ever comes up

#i like to remember whuch states are commonwealths and who has one the pulitzer twice #i’ll have to double check but im pretty sure its only colson whitehead and john updike #ok those are right and also booth tarkington and faulkner #remember that one kids itll come in handy!

[thefinalenby]

Is there a book tumblr like booktok? 😂 I finally started reading again and I am getting into horror novels and I finished The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix and I absolutely adored it. I love slasher horror and I love things are fast paced. This book hit the nail on the coffin. It was so engaging and kept you fucking on your toes. I am excited that there is going to be an HBO series on this soon with Charlize Theron!! I really hope she plays as Lynette Tarkington. I am pretty sure she is, but honestly would want to make a fan cast because I got some ideas. Anyways, the book was really good, you felt like you were apart of the sisters in the support group and just the big message even through the shitty ass things in life, pushing through it and not giving up makes you a strong fighter. The only thing I would have loved is more graphic things, like full on slasher mood but I do love the references to occult following horror franchises.

#horror #horror books #horror blog #slashers #slasher #slasher horror #grady hendrix #the final girl support group #final girl #Lynette Tarkington #charlize theron #hbo series #horror novel

[underground211]

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Booth Tarkington

#Booth Tarkington

[buzzdixonwriter]

Outta Da Ballpark

The term “masterpiece” gets bandied about a lot.

It’s come to mean the crème de la crème, the ne plus ultra of any creative soul, but the reality is it’s the benchmark that determines if you’re good enough to be considered a master.

In short, not the best, but better than anything you’ve done before.

In contemporary parlance, however, it means something universally recognized and acknowledged as the best of the best.

We can argue about how we define “best” but when we look at writers (and we’ll focus solely on novelists this time out), we can judge their output by their batting average.

In other words, how many times did they swing, and how many times did they score?

Like baseball, it’s possible to:

Swing and miss

Swing and hit but not get on base

Swing and hit a single / double / triple

Swing and hit a home run. 

We’re going to focus just on the home runs (i.e., their best known works, the ones readers around the world instantly recognize to this day when you mention the title) and only those published in their lifetime (more than a few had completed manuscripts in the hopper when they died). 

And I’m not interested in doubles or triples, as praiseworthy as they are.  Nope, only clear cut outta-da-ballpark hits here, nothing less

Jane Austen Lifetime at bats:  4 books One home run: Pride And Prejudice

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Lifetime at bats:  6 books One home run: Frankenstein

Nathaniel Hawthorne Lifetime at bats:  17 books One home run: The Scarlet Letter

Charles Dickens Lifetime at bats:  22 books Four home runs: A Christmas Carol Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale Of Two Cities

Herman Melville Lifetime at bats:  11 books One home run: Moby Dick

Alexandre Dumas Lifetime at bats:  48 books Two home runs: The Three Musketeers The Count Of Monte Cristo

Victor Hugo Lifetime at bats:  11 books Two home runs: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Les Miserables

Jules Verne Lifetime at bats:  54 books Four home runs: Journey To The Center Of The Earth From The Earth To The Moon + 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Around The World In 80 Days

+  now typically published as one volume with its sequel All Around The Moon

Mark Twain Lifetime at bats:  41 books Two home runs: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Booth Tarkington Lifetime at bats:  40 books Zero home runs

H.G. Wells Lifetime at bats:  51 books Three home runs: The Time Machine The War Of The Worlds The Invisible Man

Edgar Rice Burroughs Lifetime at bats:  71 books One home run: Tarzan Of The Apes

Ernest Hemingway Lifetime at bats:  9 books Three home runs: The Sun Also Rise A Farewell To Arms For Whom The Bell Tolls

John Steinbeck Lifetime at bats:  27 books Three home runs: Of Mice And Men The Grapes Of Wrath East Of Eden

Jack Kerouac Lifetime at bats:  14 books One home run: On The Road

Joseph Heller Lifetimes at bat:  6 books One home run: Catch-22

Ray Bradbury Lifetime at bats:  11 books + Two home runs: The Martian Chronicles Fahrenheit 451

+ counting only novels, not short story collections

For those asking “Where are Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan-Doyle and Ian Fleming and Harlan Ellison?” the answer is they either wrote mostly short stories and no novels of lasting consequence, or they wrote series fiction, not standalone works, and while everyone knows who their series’ characters are, most people would be hard pressed to name a single novel from those series unless they had been filmed as mega-hit movies (Hound Of The Baskervilles excepted).

Burroughs gets mentioned because Tarzan Of The Apes is a fairly well written for an artefact of its era.  He wrote several series of books, his pattern being to turn in two or three engrossing first volumes then, once on the hook for that $weet $weet $weet $equel $erie$ ca$h, started slumming out the follow-ups.  Burroughs could write well when he put his mind to it, and his best later fiction are those rare occasions when he chose to indulge in wickedly insightful self-parody.

And for those wondering “Hoodafuq is Booth Tarkington?” the answer is one of the most famous, important, and influential American writers of the early to mid-20th century, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a popular dramatist as well as a novelist.  Several of his works were adapted into motion pictures, the most famous being The Magnificent Ambersons as directed by Orson Welles.  He’s on the list because despite his popularity and prestige in his lifetime, he and his works are virtually forgotten today.

There’s a reason for that, and one that ties in with why everybody else has at least one home run masterpiece to their credit:

“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.” – Alan Moore

Before we proceed, let me state I deny no one their pleasure, I yuck no one else’s yum.*  There’s certainly a place and purpose for popular entertainment, and since I’m the guy who read Lester Dent’s Doc Savage novel The Sargasso Ogre at least 20 times during my 13th summer, I’d be a hypocrite to say you can’t enjoy your favorite forms of pop culture.

And art can be gleefully entertaining, it’s not confined to somber despair laden tragedy and tsuris. 

But art always possesses what Robert Hughes called “the shock of the new.”  It makes us see and experience things we’ve never seen nor experienced before.  Even when it’s a joyous celebration, it’s a celebration that’s fresh and insightful.  Even when it’s set in a previous era, or a well known contemporary setting, it catches us by surprise.

Tarkington, a masterful writer, specialized in nostalgia.  His works reject modernity not the way Burroughs gleefully rejected modernity with Tarzan, but rather turned his back on the present and condemned the future sight unseen.

Nothing he wrote surprises us.

It pleases us, and that’s nice and certainly worthy of praise…

…but it’s nothing we’re going to remember for long.

  © Buzz Dixon

  * Unless you enjoy harming children, animals, and innocent people, in which case f.u.

#writing #classics #literature #Ray Bradbury #Joseph Heller #Jack Kerouac #John Steinbeck #Ernest Hemingway #Edgar Rice Burroughs #H G Wells #Mark Twain #Booth Tarkington #Jules Verne #Victor Hugo #Alexandre Dumas #Herman Melville #Charles Dickens #Nathaniel Hawthorne #Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley #Jane Austen #masterpiece

[mackthemuser]

The Final Girl Support Group: Book Review

The Final Girl Support Group: Book Review

The Final Girl Support Group is a horror novel written by Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) following the life of Lynette Tarkington, one of the women who make up the Final Girls Support Group. Final Girls are women who’ve survived gruesome massacres, and the ones in Hendrix’s book mirror fictional Final Girls from franchises…

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#.The Final Girl Support Group #Book #Final Girl #final girls #Grady Hendrix #horror #Lynette Tarkington

[jumpscaere]

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#╰ * LYNNETTE TARKINGTON : the paranoid › writing. #╰ * LYNNETTE TARKINGTON : the paranoid › visage. #╰ * LYNNETTE TARKINGTON : the paranoid › about. #╰ * LYNNETTE TARKINGTON : the paranoid › aesthetics. #╰ * LYNNETTE TARKINGTON : the paranoid › verse i. #╰ * LAURIE STRODE : the babysitter › verse i. #╰ * LAURIE STRODE : the babysitter › writing. #╰ * LAURIE STRODE : the babysitter › visage. #╰ * LAURIE STRODE : the babysitter › about. #╰ * LAURIE STRODE : the babysitter › aesthetics. #╰ * NANCY THOMPSON : the dream warrior › aesthetics. #╰ * NANCY THOMPSON : the dream warrior › about. #╰ * NANCY THOMPSON : the dream warrior › visage. #╰ * NANCY THOMPSON : the dream warrior › writing. #╰ * NANCY THOMPSON : the dream warrior › verse i. #╰ * SAVANNAH WOODHAM : the ghost hunter › verse i. #╰ * SAVANNAH WOODHAM : the ghost hunter › writing. #╰ * SAVANNAH WOODHAM : the ghost hunter › visage. #╰ * SAVANNAH WOODHAM : the ghost hunter › aesthetics. #╰ * SAVANNAH WOODHAM : the ghost hunter › about.

[weirdtvland]

Peaches Jones & Rockne Tarkington in Melinda, 1972 💗

#black is beautiful #1970s #black women #circa 1970s #70s blaxploitation