Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner

Informationen zum Autor Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was one of the most popular and innovative American writers of the early twentieth century. He influenced many writers who followed, with his acute observations winning praise from Hemingway, Woolf, Fitzgerald, and Wilson and his short stories remain popular a century later. Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Daily News and is the author of numerous books about sports and show business. In 2016 he was awarded the Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism. James Lardner is a writer and political activist who lives outside Washington DC. Klappentext Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country’s best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner’s trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner’s journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era-from Jack Dempsey’s fights to the World Series and even an America’s Cup-he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life.The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who remains contemporary to subsequent generations.   Zusammenfassung Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner’s journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by James Lardner     Introduction     A Note to Readers     Ring Lardner Tells His Sad, Sad Story to the World     1. Getting Started     South Bend Has Cause to Be Proud of Athletic Record the Past Year     Memoirs of a Baseball Scribe (Part 1)      Memoirs of a Baseball Scribe (Part 2)      Twenty-Six Cubs Will Be Taken on Southern Journey     The Peerless Leader Takes Charge     Record Crowd Opens Forbes Field     P.L.’s Team Leads Arabella to the Altar     Pullman Pastimes: Frank Schulte Is His Own Entertainer     Pullman Pastimes: Dawson’s Reform Credited to Two Cubs     The Rustlers Go Marching Through Georgia     2. Baseball     The First Game     Ring’s All-Stars     Peaches Graham: Nine Men in One     Ty Cobb’s Inside Baseball     Ping Bodie’s Monologue     Matty     Mordecai Brown: The Reporter’s Friend     Noisy John Kling     Casting Stones with Rollie Zeider     Casey in the Field     How to Pitch to Babe Ruth     Baseball Poems     The World Serious     1909 Exhausted Tigers Extend Series     1912 The Tears of Christy Mathewson     1915 A Plea for Help     A Rainy Day in Philadelphia     1916 Your Correspondent Sizes Up the Series     Lardner Story Starts as Verse, Turns to Prose as Fattens Purse     Inning by Inning with the Red Sox and Robins     Nothing Happened     1917 Report from Behind Enemy Lines     The Modern Voltaire     1918 18 Holes     1919 A Hot Tip from the Umpire     Kid’s Strategy Goes Amuck as Jake Doesn’t Die     A Dirty Finger on the Ball     1920 No Need to Bribe Brooklyn     Ring Splits Double-Header     1921 Lar...

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Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was one of the most popular and innovative American writers of the early twentieth century. He influenced many writers who followed, with his acute observations winning praise from Hemingway, Woolf, Fitzgerald, and Wilson and his short stories remain popular a century later. Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Daily News and is the author of numerous books about sports and show business. In 2016 he was awarded the Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism. James Lardner is a writer and political activist who lives outside Washington DC.

Product details

• Authors: Ring Lardner, Ring/ Rapoport Lardner
• Assisted by: Ron Rapoport (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780803269736
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6973-6
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy