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A conversation with Moyra Davey about her recent essay collection
... wrote when traveling through Scandinavia. I tapped into her life, and Mary Shelley’s, and I started to make connections. I realized that important dates from their lives occurred more or less two...
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It’s the Pictures That Got Small
... the highest-paid--and most dazzlingly famous--stars of the silent-film era, after signing with Cecil B. DeMille when she was only nineteen. If Mary Pickford was America’s Sweetheart, and Theda Bara...
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Jeanette Winterson’s Modern-Day "Frankenstein"; Herman Wouk (1915–2019)
... fo 103. Jeanette Winterson talks about Frankissstein, which revisits the industrial revolution of Mary Shelley classic’s classic and pulls us back into the present of “artificial intelligence...
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Artful Volumes
... Chief among this chorus are the title figures of Davey’s 2011 film, Les Goddesses, that phrase being Aaron Burr’s nickname for Wollstonecraft and Godwin’s daughters and stepdaughters: Mary Shelley...
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Bookforum talks with Durga Chew-Bose
... perception, or about feeling as a verb but not a noun. I had no idea Wong Kar-wai is your hero. D: He’s so not my hero. I don’t know why the reviewer said that, but I was grateful to be close to Mary...
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Visible Republic
...: My old time daddy Came back home last night. His face was pale and His eyes didn't look just right. He says, "Mary, I'm Comin' home to you-- So sick...
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Scalia's Backward Glance; a New Book on Bowie
... you tell them apart or are they all a-mush?” As it turns out, you can. He presents graphs that show how often authors such as Jane Austen, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, and others use...
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Kathy Acker changes lives; Egypt's National Library and Archives suffers bomb damage
... Expectations (1983), and Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986). Dennis Cooper, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, and Frank O'Hara also received multiple mentions. Egypt's National Library and Archives, in...
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Should writers be paid; Neil Gaiman is going to Bard
...-archive/?ref=books>, featuring original manuscripts and writing from Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife Mary Shelley, as well as from Mary’s parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. The...
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Long and Winding Road
... more overtly political than Dillard’s. In The Faraway Nearby, her idiosyncratic style of argument by analogy and imaginative association brings Mary Shelley, Napoleon, revolutionary monks in Myanmar...
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Sep 26, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
... in the New York Review of Books. Astronomers in Texas have figured out the exact hour that Mary...
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May 12, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
... everything wonderful and weird from their vast holdings, with items such as a copy of the Guttenberg bible, Virginia Woolf’s walking stick, and a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair (among many other things) on...
