Alcohol & One Writer’s Boyhood By M. J. Moore In his short story “Just Like the Girl” (with its sardonic epigram being a line from an old 1890s ditty: “I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old dad . . .”), author James Jones dramatized
KEROUAC IN OUR TIME By M. J. Moore Fifty years after Jack Kerouac‘s death on October 21, 1969, a question arises. Should Kerouac be aligned with WWII-era male American authors like James Jones (“From Here to Eternity”), Norman Mailer (“The Naked and the Dead”), and Joseph Heller (“
RETRO: The Wrath of Hemingway (Excerpt) (Note: This is an excerpt adapted from M.J. Moore’s forthcoming biography on novelist James Jones, author of such works as From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line.) Although Leslie Fiedler’s critique was not full of glowing remarks, there still emerged a deep appreciation for
books RETRO: A Guy Named Jim FOR JULIA SCHOPICK “I caught the bus at midnight, aware that I was leaving for good,” a combat veteran named Jim said of his exit from Camp Campbell, Kentucky. It was 1944. He’d been reassigned there, despite injuries, to train with an infantry division that deployed later in the
books RETRO: A Guy Named Jim FOR JULIA SCHOPICK “I caught the bus at midnight, aware that I was leaving for good,” a combat veteran named Jim said of his exit from Camp Campbell, Kentucky.It was 1944. He’d been reassigned there, despite injuries, to train with an infantry division that deployed later in the
1950s RETRO: Lowney Handy, James Jones, and Their Colony In downstate Illinois throughout the 1950s, legendary novelist James Jones and his patron, mentor, and lover Lowney Handy formed a countercultural writers’ group, known locally as The Colony. Lowney was an older, married, childless woman, whose unconditional support of ex-G.I. Jones between 1944 and 1950 allowed him to write
books RETRO: December 7, 1941 “Pearl Harbor, when they passed it, was a shambles. Wheeler Field had been bad, but Pearl Harbor numbed the brain.” ~~~ James Jones, From Here to Eternity The centrality of Sunday, December 7, 1941, in the life of novelist James Jones cannot be overstated. Whether it was when he was
Film RETRO: Monty, Sinatra & Jones in Eternity Novelist James Jones arrived with a blockbuster in 1951: From Here to Eternity smashed sales records from the get-go. Jones’ debut novel focused on several members of a U.S. Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor – a story
