Archive for December, 2009

Cinderella: the sequel

Hilary Mantel imagines the life of Cinderella twenty years later, after the tabloids have turned on her and the prince is searching for a mistress. (See also Carol Burnett’s Snow White: 15 years later.)

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A curmudgeon’s literary paraphernalia

It has not always been so, but few aspects of online aspiring-writer culture are more irritating to me than “literary lifestyle” tips and paraphernalia. (Library-scented perfume. Dictionary wallpaper. Moleskines. Bookshelves fashioned of reference books pulled from library dumpsters. The onslaught is maddening.) But every curmudgeon is at least something of a hypocrite, and I am no exception. I visit writers’ . . .

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