My review of Madonna & Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, a new anthology from Soft Skull Press, is published today at For Books’ Sake
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Bookish Birthdays: Carson McCullers
Posted in Books, Fiction, Websites, tagged Carson McCullers, For Books' Sake, Southern Writers on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You can read my profile of author Carson McCullers – born on February 19, 1917 – at For Books’ Sake
‘Last Sessions’ Review Goes to Print
Posted in Books, Fiction, Magazines, tagged Mad About Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn's Last Sessions, Michel Schneider on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My review of Michel Schneider’s psychological novel, Marilyn’s Last Sessions (originally posted here) features in the latest Mad About Marilyn fanzine, alongside a vintage Tatler article about the young Norma Jeane, and an interview with Jay Margolis, author of the investigative study, Marilyn Monroe: A Case For Murder. If you’re interested in joining the Mad About Marilyn fanclub, please contact emmadowning@blueyonder.co.uk
‘Wicked Baby’: A Tale Retold
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Profumo Affair, Updates, tagged Christine Keeler, James Birch, Mayor Gallery, Profumo Affair, Tara Hanks, Wicked Baby on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was surprised – and flattered – to find my 2004 novella, Wicked Baby, listed in the bibliography to this book which accompanied the 2010 exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, Christine Keeler: My Life in Pictures. The catalogue includes photographs of Keeler – the iconic model at the centre of 1963′s Profumo Affair – and [...]
Marilyn’s Last Sessions
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Dr Ralph Greenson, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn's Last Sessions, Michel Schneider on November 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Marilyn Monroe’s final two years, as a patient of the psychiatrist, Dr Ralph Greenson – who saw her daily in the month before she died – have long been the subject of intense speculation. One of Greenson’s students, Lucy Freeman, published a study of their relationship, Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe, while Luciano Mecacci’s [...]
My Week With Marilyn
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, tagged Colin Clark, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis, The Prince And The Showgirl on November 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
‘This is a fairy tale’, was the original tagline – later replaced by ‘this is a true story.’ My Week With Marilyn is an Anglo-American confection, based on Colin Clark’s memoirs of filming with Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe on The Prince and the Showgirl (1956).
Bookish Birthdays: George Eliot
Posted in Books, Fiction, tagged Coventry, For Books' Sake, George Eliot, Warwickshire on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My profile of the great Victorian novelist, Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot, who was born on this day in 1819, is published at For Books’ Sake
Shelagh Delaney 1939-2011
Posted in Books, Fiction, Theatre, tagged A Taste of Honey, Dance With a Stranger, For Books' Sake, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Littlewood, Kenneth Tynan, Morrissey, Salford, Shelagh Delaney, Theatre Royal Stratford East on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My tribute to Shelagh Delaney, ‘the first working-class woman playwright’, who died recently, is published today at For Books’ Sake
Andrea Arnold’s ‘Wuthering Heights’
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Fiction, Film, tagged Agatha A, Agatha Nitecka, Andrea Arnold, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights on November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Wuthering Heights – the classic novel by Emily Brontё, published in 1848 – was first filmed by William Wyler in the sunny hills of California nearly a century later. The French-born actress, Juliet Binoche, starred in a 1992 remake. There have been several TV adaptations, and non-English versions from Luis Bunuel and Jacques Rivette.
Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Baseball, Jerome Charyn, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe on November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last November, Morris Engleberg – former lawyer and executor of Joe DiMaggio’s estate – objected to a new biography of the baseball legend, or more precisely, its cover – a photo of DiMaggio with his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, taken by John Vachon in 1953.
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