Gorey’s crime flick preferences
The 1919 film Tih Minh, one of the multi-part Feuillade crime epics in which Edward Gorey immersed himself, showed at Yale tonight. NYC next?
The 1919 film Tih Minh, one of the multi-part Feuillade crime epics in which Edward Gorey immersed himself, showed at Yale tonight. NYC next?
“Most of his requests seemed impossible at the outset, and satisfying them was like a competitive sport.” Novelist Samantha Peale, on Jeff Koons.
Hadn’t read Ian McEwan since abandoning Saturday, but enjoyed “The Use of Poetry” on the train home tonight.
The first edition of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage, “an unabashedly prescriptivist tome,” is being reissued. (Via.)
The novelist Alexander Chee and I corresponded at Granta this summer about Jean Rhys’ doomed love affair with Ford Madox Ford and the novels each of them wrote after it imploded. Rhys’ novel was called Quartet. I have no idea whether the 1981 Merchant Ivory film based on it is any good, but it’s been posted online in ten parts. . . .