Upon Encountering Happiness

"Be Wary at such times since most of life's blows fall then."


- J.P. Donleavy from The Unexpurgated Code
Photo courtesy, the J.P. Donleavy Archives.
List includes online reprints of articles originally appearing in print. Included are periodicals and books with pieces on JPD which do not fall into the academic category.

"Title?"

The New York Times, May 11, 1958.

Details being researched.

"Title?"

New York Herald Tribune Book Review, May 11, 1958.

Details being researched.

"The Fool-Rogue"

The Nation , May 24, 1958

Article and review by Vivian Mercier -The Ginger Man.

"Title?"

Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1958.

Details being researched.

"New Names on the Dust Jackets"

The New York Times, June 15, 1958

Article on new writers on the scene by Norman Podhoretz. Very favorable
to JPD.

"Dorothy Parker on Books" - Four rousing cheers

Esquire, July, 1958

An absolute rave review of The Ginger Man with brief biographical background.

Read the article/review

"Title?"

Commonweal, Aug. 15, 1958.

Details being researched.

"The Ginger Man"

National Review , (month?), 1958

Big surprise - a negative review/article by William F. Buckley

"Title?"

The New Yorker, Oct. 25, 1958.

Article by Malcom Cowley includes JPD.

"Novelists preoccupied with sex"

Horizon, March, 1959

Article by Malcom Cowley includes JPD.

"For the Singing Birds"

Time, Monday, April 20, 1959

JPD mentioned in an article-review of the book Cadenza by Ralph Cusack. Donleavy reviewed the book himself in Saturday Review, April 16, 1959 (see JPD - Periodicals).

"The Ginger Man"

Encore Magazine: The Voice of Vital Theatre, No. 22, Nov.-Dec., 1959

Article/review by Edna O' Brian.

"J.P. Donleavy "

New Left Review, (month?), 1960

by Gísli Gunnarsson.

"The Un-Angry"

Time, Feb. 3, 1961

Article and review -Fairy Tales of New York (London premiere).

Read the article/review.

"Where Is The Ginger Man?"

New Left Review, March-April 1961

Article by Norm Fruchter.

Read the article.

Odo Voci

by Paul Ableman | Feltrinelli, Italy 1961

Section on Olympia Press, Paris includes JPD. In Italian.

"Fairy Tales of New York"

Plays and Players, March, 1961

Article/review - The Comedy Theatre production with Barry Foster and Susan Hampshire.

"Dateline: London"

Theatre, March, 1962

Donleavy's play The Ginger Man mentioned along with other plays then on London stages. Article by Neil Stevens.

"Hero of Our Times?"

The Observer Weekend Review, June 23, 1963

Review/article by Philip Toynbee about the first unexpurgated, mass-market UK publication of The Ginger Man by Corgi Books.

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