20 Sunday Jun 2010
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Donna Tartt, Emily Bronte, Frida Kahlo, Jeremy Richey, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Moon in the Gutter, Tara Hanks
Jeremy Richey has interviewed me about my influences – books, films, movies and more – over at his wonderful ‘Moon in the Gutter’ blog. Well worth checking out for Jeremy’s insightful reviews, ten of which are published in a new book, Directory of World Cinema: American Independent.
13 Sunday Jun 2010
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals
Philippe Halsman, 1952
Dr Lois Banner, professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, considers three recent MM biographies in this month’s Women’s Review of Books, and discusses the difficulty of ‘deconstructing Marilyn’.
Banner is currently writing a scholarly study of Monroe for Bloomsbury Press, An Uncommon Woman: Marilyn Monroe as an American Icon of Passion and Power.
Dr Banner at USC
Lois Banner on Amazon
My own reviews of recent Monroe literature can be found here
08 Tuesday Jun 2010
Eliza Graham is the author of Playing With the Moon (2007) and Restitution (2008.) Her third novel, Jubilee (2010), is set in the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire, where she lives. Continue reading
23 Sunday May 2010
Posted in Books, Fiction, Film, Marilyn Monroe
Photo by Eric Skipsey, 1961
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O’Hagan – my review… Continue reading
12 Wednesday May 2010
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
It could be argued that Arthur Miller is now remembered as much for his four-year marriage to Marilyn Monroe as for his plays, including at least one masterpiece, Death of a Salesman. But in post-war theatre, only Tennessee Williams rivalled Miller in stature. When the outspoken, liberal playwright won the heart of America’s golden girl in 1956, many predicted this unlikely match would soon fail.
Nearly sixty years later, their marriage is the subject of a new book by Jeffrey Meyers. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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