February 2012
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Melodramatic resonances or: the long arm of Little...
Surely I can’t be the only one to see it?
Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl: 1871, 1906, 1926
1. DRAMA, 1871
A story of a sewing machine operator. Bertha the sewing machine girl; or, Death at the wheel!, Francis S. Smith.
2. FICTION, 1906
Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl, Olive Harper. 3. FILM, 1926 Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl, dir. Irving Cummings, starring Madge Bellamy and Anita Garvin.
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A 3-year-old Maine girl, possibly confused by a... →
“Hope Trott woke up in the middle of the night, put on little ruby red shoes, threw a jacket on over her nightdress and walked to the store with the temperature at 29 degrees, police said. An employee found the girl crying outside the store at 4 a.m. Wednesday and called police.”
(Don’t worry, she’s perfectly fine in the end. I’m not a demon.)
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The riveting, breathtaking conclusion that she...
The Rejectionist: Special Guest Post: Meg Clark on Jonathan Franzen
“To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of unstable estrogen-addled women, but that I know actually describes a rage forcibly contained, the hot burn of the involuntary tears, the snap in your composure when you are told for the millionth time that what you feel or think or say or do does not matter....
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A quick note re: Franzen on Wharton
mollyyoung:
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen’s essay on Edith Wharton, because I’m glad whenever anyone pays homage to the most heartbreaking novelist of all time. But I question the premise of the piece, which is that modern perceptions of Wharton’s character unfairly obstruct the enjoyment of her work.
First, unlike Franzen, I have never found Wharton to be an unsympathetic character in any way,...
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Read Elizabeth Gumport's "Female Trouble" in N+1 →
I’m feeling really ashamed that I’ve never read Chris Kraus. Because this: As it turned out, the most gifted practitioner of Native Agents’ nonpsychoanalytic first-person mode proved to be Kraus herself. “To be female still means being trapped within the purely psychological… . Because emotion’s just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as...
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Kickstarter - I just became a backer of the CASH... →
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I can't even
“This morning at breakfast Razia* was talking about Justin Beiber and Selena Gomez-yes already. I told her Selena can’t sing, that what she sings are not songs but commercials and they are empty and meaningless (or something rather off hand like that). Razia said, ‘Why does it have to have meaning? I see paintings that are just one color with just a splash of another color and...
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January 2012
46 posts
