In my time away from this blog (essentially 3 months), I've gotten very little writing done. Oh, I wrote the conference paper I referred to in Looking and the Gaze | Romance on Film and I delivered it successfully in Venice, which was definitely the high point of last semester. (I knew there was a reason … Continue reading Me Voici
With ‘The Best of Us,’ Joyce Maynard Is Still Oversharing – The Atlantic
The personal essay may be over—but Joyce Maynard isn’t. Source: With ‘The Best of Us,’ Joyce Maynard Is Still Oversharing - The Atlantic
Looking and the Gaze | Romance on Film
Issues of looking and the gaze are complicated in Summertime (Lean, 1955). Here, despite wielding a camera, Katharine Hepburn's*** character is totally dispossessed of the cinematic agency it might imply. BUT ... That's not all there is to say about it by any means, so I'm headed to a conference in Venice in October … Continue reading Looking and the Gaze | Romance on Film
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice | Literary Hub
The bottom line is that it takes most academics a long time—whether at the front end of the writing process, at the back end, or both—to produce high-quality work. Apprentice academics may regard the enormous effort involved as a symptom of their own inadequacy, especially if they have been led to believe that writing is … Continue reading How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice | Literary Hub
Revenge of Gatsby, Mrs De Winter… the never-ending love for literary sequels | Books | The Guardian
The popularity of the form can mainly be blamed on Hollywood, where the quality of a script is increasingly judged on whether the title could reappear followed by a “two” and ideally a rising succession of digits. Taking their cue from movie studios, writers and publishers began to imagine a second go at stories that … Continue reading Revenge of Gatsby, Mrs De Winter… the never-ending love for literary sequels | Books | The Guardian
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