User talk:OJWay

Ways to improve Ourselves to Know

Hello, OJWay,

Thank you for creating Ourselves to Know.

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Schminnte (talk • contribs) 12:53, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

@Schminnte: - Thank you for helping me improve this article. I am a member of the John O'Hara Society - a pretty informal group of fans of the author (1905 - 1970). I have asked for help in our Facebook Group to improve this article, and I suggested this: Ideas to improve the page include: uploading a cover image, adding a section on "Critical Reception"; another section on "Depiction of the American Civil War"; add references to the "Bank Panic of 1907"; discuss parallels between "Ourselves to Know" and Nabokov's "Lolita". How does all that sound?

Meanwhile, I've decided to create a new article on his novella "A Family Party" because the Local Reads book club in Pottsville, PA (O'Hara's birthplace and the setting of his best work - under the alias of Gibbsville, PA) is discussing it at its Aug. 30 meeting. I'm asking someone who'll be there to request readers at the meeting club meeting to edit that article. But I won't ignore "Ourselves to Know".

Also, I invite you to read some of the works of John O'Hara because he's really good - he's been called addictive. The best place to start is his novel "Appointment in Samarra". If you like it, I invite you to join the John O'Hara Society too! OJWay (talk) 05:25, 13 August 2023 (UTC)