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....
by | Jul 15, 2020 | Literary News
from The New York Times Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay. By Robert Zaretsky In the summer of 1585, the mayor of Bordeaux learned, from the comfort of his nearby chateau, that the...
by | Jul 14, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Brixton Blog Top literature prize for Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year’s PEN Pinter Prize. Judges praised his work, saying: “Few post-war figures have been as unwaveringly committed to political...
by | Jun 15, 2020 | Literary News
from WYSO 91.3 Meet Ohio’s New Poet Laureate: Kari Gunter-Seymour By JASON REYNOLDS Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio’s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter-Seymour says poetry is...
