by | Mar 22, 2021 | Literary News
from The New York Times Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? By Ben Libman “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking &...
by | Mar 4, 2021 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Marie Claire Tia Mowry Shares Her All-Time Favorite Books in ‘Shelf Portrait’ She has a gorgeous library in her bedroom! By Marie Claire Tia Mowry’s chic library, located in her room (a dream!), is filled with a variety of books alongside her...
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...
