Archive for October, 2008

Witches, Demons, & Thieves: A Puritan Halloween

If you’re free on October 22, come out to Housing Works at 7 p.m. for Witches, Demons, and Thieves, a Puritan Halloween celebration with authors Kathleen Kent and Hannah Tinti, and artist Michael Aaron Lee, a friend whose eerie tree paintings (pictured) evoke the cold, dark forest of the soul that Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown finds himself drawn into. As . . .

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Maugham v. James

Maugham was famously critical of Henry James, whose work he thought was convoluted and pompous. Also sexless.

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