Brontesaurus
20 Sunday Jun 2010
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‘The Mmm Girl’ in Boston
20 Sunday Jun 2010
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“My copy has paint on it – which is the semi-official way of saying that it is love. I keep it in my studio…”
Moon in the Gutter
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.
The Meaning of Marilyn
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
Twenty Questions
12 Saturday Jun 2010
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From the 1881 book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, by Annie Allnut Brassey
In response to this quiz from yingle yangle, and Faye L. Booth‘s recent post… Continue reading
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