Posts Tagged ‘E.B. White’

  • Charlotte’s Web: an Unforgettable Story that Looks Life and Death Square in the Eye

    Charlotte’s Web: an Unforgettable Story that Looks Life and Death Square in the Eye

    March 8th, 2014 | Writers | journalpulp | 5 Comments

    The best measure for children’s literature is how well that literature holds up when you’re an adult. By this measure Charlotte’s Web is among the very best children’s books written in English. Engrossing, with characters utterly convincing — so utterly human, those animals — Charlotte’s Web towers above most children’s books as a profound explication […]

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  • Gin And The Murky Origins Of The Martini

    Gin And The Murky Origins Of The Martini

    October 24th, 2012 | Bartending | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    In hell, said Randal Jarell, Americans tell each other how to make a martini. A martini — “the elixir of quietude” as E.B. White described it — consists of gin and vermouth. The ingredients are chilled and then strained into a cocktail glass. That, at any rate, is the original martini, though vodka is now, […]

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