by | Jan 2, 2021 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The Wall Street Journal Even Homer Gets Mobbed A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’ By Meghan Cox Gurdon A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers...
by | Dec 24, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Atlantic What Drives Writers to Drink? Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle by JAMES PARKER A portrait of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) sitting in an unidentified bar in the early...
by | Dec 19, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Independent UK Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Being cancelled has endeared me to part of the population’ After his recent collection of essays stirred controversy, the author has written the script for a slasher horror movie. He tells Ed Cumming why today’s social media...
by | Nov 19, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from MovieMaker Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast by Tim Molloy For the last six episodes of his podcast, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has held readers rapt with an early 1980s story of Los Angeles...
by | Sep 1, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The New Criterion Knights & their ladies fair On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. by Bruce Bawer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wNc86LpidM Just after the opening credits of Gone with the Wind and before the start of the film...
by | Jul 26, 2020 | Literary News
from The New York Times H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw Fight Over Socialism In his latest installment of The Literati, Edward Sorel illustrates the epic battle for control of the Fabian Society, an elite group of socialists, at the turn of the last century....
