Poems. Changing Genres by Dean Young. Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011 Listen Download E-mail Share Changing Genres by Dean Young I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring out a window. "Changing Genres" by Dean Young, from Fall Higher. © Copper Canyon Press, 2011. It's the birthday of novelist Elmore Leonard (books by this author), born in New Orleans in 1925. When Leonard started writing, he was also working as a copy-editor for an advertising agency. At the beginning of his career, he wasn't sure whether to focus on Westerns or crime novels, but he decided on Westerns because they were easier to publish — the genre was popular, and there were lots of pulp magazines publishing them.
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His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all of Alger's novels share the same theme: a young boy struggles through hard work to escape poverty. Critics, however, are quick to point out that it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy elder gentleman, who takes the boy in as a ward.
Biography[edit] Alger, July 1852. Gilded Age. The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. The increase of industrialization meant, despite the increasing labor force, real wages in the US grew 60% from 1860 to 1890, and continued to rise after that.[1][2] However, the Gilded Age was also an era of poverty as very poor European immigrants poured in.
Railroads were the major industry, but the factory system, mining, and finance increased in importance. Immigration from Europe, China and the eastern states led to the rapid growth of the West, based on farming, ranching and mining. Economic growth[edit] Politics[edit]