28 Tuesday Apr 2009
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Updates
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Just a quick note to let you know that you can read my review of Ted Schwarz’s Marilyn Revealed in the latest issue of the Mad About Marilyn fanzine. You can also find it here.
And many thanks to all of you who read and comment on my articles – long may it continue!
11 Saturday Apr 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe
‘There are no second acts in American lives,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote – and he should know. Like Elvis Presley, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Fitzgerald’s flame burned brightly, but was all too soon extinguished. Continue reading
06 Monday Apr 2009
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Nabbed from Faye L. Booth, a few questions on reading:
What time do you find the best time to read? During the day I combine my writing with research, mainly non-fiction. Or else a book I’m reviewing. I try to set aside time each evening to read something unrelated to work, generally a novel or biography. Becoming a writer has changed the way I read, I’d say that I’m less spontaneous now and I think a lot about the way it was written rather than just experiencing it. But it’s important for me to remember the pleasure of losing myself in words, because that’s what inspired me to write in the first place. Continue reading
27 Friday Mar 2009
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
The Abrams Discoveries series is a range of small paperbacks covering notable subjects in history, art, music and science. It provides a detailed but succinct look at individual topics, and a reference point for further study. Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have been amused to find herself scrutinised alongside King Arthur, Salvador Dali and the ancient Greeks. However, its title, The Last Goddess, is an appropriate one. The front cover uses that familiar image of Marilyn in a gold dress, cut to the navel, her spirit as elusive as a modern Mona Lisa. The back jacket includes a smaller still from her most successful film, Some Like It Hot. Continue reading
16 Monday Feb 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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“The Mmm Girl has left an indelible series of images in my memory..this novel is more accurate, in many ways, than anything else that has been written about Marilyn and it is the only book to ever leave me with a lasting impression of the loneliness and desperation of her real life.”
Stuart P. Coates, author of Norma Jeane’s Wishes In Time
Read his full review here… Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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