https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ elfbiter - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:16:38 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios elfbiter personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7491818/2170751 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/16551.html Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:16:38 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/16551.html <b><i>John Ross</i></b> - Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough<br /><br />John Ross is US medical doctor with literary interests. In this book he describes number of kind of case histories of literary greats. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/16551.html#cutid1">Life and especially Death of authors in English</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=16551" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/16551.html reviews history medicine books writing biographies authors public 0 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1398.html Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:38:16 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1398.html <b><i>Louis D. Rubin, Jr (edit.)</i></b> - An Apple for my Teacher<br /><br />First, I have to admit I don't know a single one of these authors who write about their mentors. It may be that their books are more "literary" variety that rarely crosses the Atlantic - or even their own world of academia to the outside world. Some of them admit as much: "Radical writer in America is stuck with the anomaly that his own only audience is the literate establishment"<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1398.html#cutid1">How to learn to write to the social circle of your teacher</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />"He can solve practical problems for you, problems of craft; but he cannot and should not meddle with the mystery of it."<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=1398" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1398.html reviews books mentors writing school authors public 0