I Love To Bake Bread -- But I Agree With This Guy From The New Yorker -- June 27, 2023

Locator: 45087ARCH. 

Table for two, from The New Yorker:

The Suffolk Collection, link here. We had two of these at one time, when we were stationed in England. I loved them. Used them all the time. Our younger daughter has one of them, possibly both. I forget. Besides memories, perhaps one of the best things we brought back from England.

My solution:

• bake my own white bread when I really, really want to bake
• my closest friend while growing up in Williston "taught" me the pleasures of baking my own bread
• he also taught me the pleasure of biking everywhere
• but for special breads -- special bakeries and Central Market (HEB)

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The Book Page

Book to read today. Just a bit. An overview as it were.

I don't like Russian literature. Have read very little, understand less. Maybe I'm missing something. Time to find out.

Lectures on Russian Literature: Cheekhov, Dostoevski, Gorki, Gorgol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, edited by Fredson Bowers, c. 1981.

Notes.

The writers:

• Nikolay Gogol: 1809 - 1852
• Ivan Turenev: 1818 - 1883
• Fyodor Dostoevski: 1821 - 1881
• Leo Tolstoy: 1828 - 1910
• Anton Chekhov: 1860 - 1904 
• Maxim Gorki: 1868 - 1936

From wiki:

The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now in London), in which they began hand-printing books as a hobby during the interwar period.

Hogarth originally published the works of many members of the Bloomsbury group, and was at the forefront of publishing works on psychoanalysis and translations of foreign, especially Russian, works.

In 1938, Virginia Woolf relinquished her interest in the business and it was then run as a partnership by Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann until 1946, when it became an associate company of Chatto & Windus

In 2011, Hogarth Press was relaunched as an imprint for contemporary fiction in a partnership between Chatto & Windus in the United Kingdom and Crown Publishing Group in the United States, which had both been acquired by Random House.

History

Printing was a hobby for the Woolfs, and it provided a diversion for Virginia when writing became too stressful.

The couple bought a handpress in 1917 for £19 (equivalent to about £1295 in 2018) and taught themselves how to use it. The press was set up in the dining room of Hogarth House, where the Woolfs lived, lending its name to the publishing company they founded

In July, 1917, they published their first text, a book with one story written by Leonard and the other written by Virginia.

Between 1917 and 1946 the Press published 527 titles.

It moved to Tavistock Square in 1924.

1917: what an interesting year to have published their first book.

• Russian civil war: 1917 - 1923.

See: rare books. 

Boris Pasternak: 1890 - 1960.

Reka Flessner: 1899 - 1990.