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Thursday, January 29, 2009

"Wise Children"--A Jolly Good Backstage Novel

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When blurbing or reviewing Angela Carter's novel Wise Children, it seems the conventional thing to say is that it's "Shakespear...

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

In Memoriam?

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When I read today that John Updike had died , all I could think about was an afternoon two years ago where I quite possibly saw Mr. Updike,...

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

The gloom of these period novels

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I'm trying to read more classic novels this year--the novels that I should have read by now, if I want to keep pretending that I'm ...

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Odes for Obama

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Like many other people, I didn't think much of the poem that Elizabeth Alexander wrote and delivered on Inauguration Day. The Guardian...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Curtain up

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Y'all probably saw this on Gawker already, but I love everything about this picture. (And not just because of the framing and the red c...

Monday, January 19, 2009

The Way of the World

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It seems I was unfortunately a bit rash in applauding the fact that Portland, Oregon is the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor. ...

Baghdad by the Bay: "The Arabian Nights" at Berkeley Rep

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There's at least one big pitfall in adapting The Arabian Nights into a stage production: Scheherezade's stories must cast the same ...

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Marissa Skudlarek: San Francisco, CA, United States; Playwright, arts writer, bibliophile, Ravenclaw, proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. @MarissaSkud on Twitter.

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