Debussy and Poe: a theatrical amalgam
Debussy’s opera based on Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” obsessed him in his final years but was left unfinished. Debussy and Poe tries to fill in the gaps.
Debussy’s opera based on Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” obsessed him in his final years but was left unfinished. Debussy and Poe tries to fill in the gaps.
“We get multiple Jesuses in the ER this time of year.” Reality Sandwich posts an excerpt from Weekends at Bellevue.
From Ivanhoe’s Rebecca to Bee Season’s heroine, Emma Garman argues, fictional Jewish girls have tended to be idealized, self- sacrificing creatures. Until now.
T.C. Boyle inaugurates Fictionaut’s new Line Breaks feature by sharing his first published story, “The OD & Hepatitis RR or Bust.”
In case you missed the excitement: MaudNewton.com was compromised again. Although the attack was less dramatic than the Russian pharmaceutical hacking of 2008, it took more time than expected for us to get everything back up and running. Some of the posts still look a little buggy — garbage where quotation marks and emdashes should be, images aligned strangely, etc. . . .