AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR
"Do you mind if I reverse the charges." And here's my earlier post: SISTERHOOD AT THE OSCARS, 1942 (Having four sisters myself I deeply appreciate this story, their complicated bond.) The story behind the picture: Olivia De Havilland (born July 1, 1916) and Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) are sisters. In 1942, they were …
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It would be inaccurate to call Victoria Wilson's nearly 1,000-page biography A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 exhaustive. For one, it only covers the first thirty-three years of the actress's life, with fifty more to go. But more importantly, despite the repetitiveness, Wilson's take on Stanwyck's life and era is so commanding and delightful, …
My Face Once in a yoga class on Broadway my face fell off landing splat on my mat. I said hey everyone my face has fallen off see it there on my mat. But no one in child’s pose or downward facing dog noticed my face staring up at me from my mat.
ON A GOOD DAY: AND THIS IS HOW I FEEL ON A BAD ONE:
For most of their lives, Marianne Moore and her mother, Mary, slept in the same bed. Together with Moore's brother, Warner, the family had many nicknames for each other: two favorites were "Mole" for Mary and "Rat" for Moore. In referring to her daughter, Mary usually used a masculine pronoun. Linda Leavell's new biography, Holding …
ON A GOOD DAY: AND THIS IS HOW I FEEL ON A BAD ONE:
"Some people think, absurdly enough, that to be Scotch or descended from the Scottish clans is to be rather strong, rather conservative, firm in faith, and all that. The idea is one that should be completely exploded by this time. I think that the Scotch as a nation are the most difficult of all to …
I had the whole little thing worked out about who I am but I was wrong and now what do I do?
Jenny McPhee 