And undeniably resourceful.Īs a gardener myself, in addition to being an avid fan of The New Yorker, this collection of articles (first published in The New Yorker in the late 1950's) is a dream come true. She seemed to admire, or at least find "resourceful," the gardener of an English insane asylum who, in the age when horses pulled grass mowers, "harnessed seven madmen to his machine." Oh, hahahaha! HILARIOUS. Clearly this tendency was inherited from her father, who detested the American Beauty rose because he found them "a bit 'gross'" (too large and strongly colored). decided never to grow rhododendrons or azaleas, "thinking them too elegant for a Maine coast farm." Ookay. One year she grew dahlias the size of dinner plates, which was "embarrassing.the only word for them was vulgar." She and E.B. Nor did I cotton to her disdain for certain very large or showy flowers. Her writing style is what I consider fussy - "I shall" for "I will," and unnecessarily archaic - there is no reason, in 1966, to call them "motorcars." I can't say the personality that came through the writing was all that attractive. She's also writing in the 50s and 60s, so a lot of the cultivars she's talking about have probably gone the way of the dodo. Even for someone interested in seeds, botany, and yes, seed catalogs, like me, it's a bit much. White reviews them as if they were books. Now in this new edition, White can be read and appreciated anew.īe warned, most of this volume is ed catalogs. Intensely personal and charged with emotion, the essays remain timeless. Onward and Upward in the Garden is an essential book of enduring appeal for writers and gardeners in every generation. Katharine White had vast and varied interests in addition to gardening and she brought them all to bear in the writing of these remarkable essays. White in his introduction to the book, would be like insisting that Ben Franklin was simply a printer. But to think of Katharine White simply as a gardener, cautioned E. Whether White is discussing her favorite garden catalogs, her disdain for oversized flower hybrids, or the long rich history of gardening, she never fails to delight readers with her humor, lively criticism, and beautiful prose. White, assembled them into this now classic collection. The poet Marianne Moore originally persuaded White that these pieces would make a fine book, but it wasn't until after her death in 1977 that her husband, E. In 1958, when her job as editor was coming to a close, White wrote the first of a series of fourteen garden pieces that appeared in The New Yorker over the next twelve years. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. Thrush replied on Twitter that “checking if a portion of a story that pertained to him was accurate… I DO THIS WITH EVERYBODY.” Politico’s vice president of communications, Brad Dayspring, said that “Glenn is one of the top political reporters in the country, in no small part because he understands that it is his job to get inside information, not appear perfect when someone illegally hacks email… I can speak with firsthand knowledge and experience that Glenn checks the validity of often complex reporting with everybody, on both sides of the aisle.Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. It is common that reporters send drafts of articles to subjects prior to publication, asking the subjects to comment and verify the accuracy. Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything.” Podesta did not ask for any changes, writing back “no problems here”. He also wrote, “No worries Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u. Thrush was criticized by the conservative National Review and the left-leaning The Intercept after an email released by Wikileaks showed Thrush sending John Podesta portions of a draft article that dealt with Podesta, asking that he fact-check those portions. Thrush disputed McGann’s account, including her assertions that he spread unflattering rumors about it around the POLITICO newsroom. McGann said there was no human resources office at the time, so she reported her concerns to a colleague and a senior editor. While Thrush got attention in September for taking a break from Twitter, where he has more than 350,000 followers, the Times reporter continued to have a platform beyond the paper as an MSNBC contributor.
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