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...Ellroy is not Jacqueline Rose or Joyce Carol Oates, out to reclaim Monroe as a feminist icon....
...’s longest and most ambitious story — the suicide of a much-lauded writer who bears a resemblance to the late David Foster Wallace....
...DH Lawrence, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Rabelais, Henry Fielding, Anaïs Nin, Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Marie Stopes, Betty Dodson, Carl Jung, Marilyn French and Germaine Greer....
...If you want to understand what led the American novelist Joyce Carol Oates to Marilyn Monroe, start with a small farmhouse in Millersport, New York. This is where Oates grew up....
...The literary flights of Joyce Carol Oates’ source novel give way to the headbangingly literal. De Armas, a gifted actress, is adrift....
...“Only the weak fall in love, they see no way of living otherwise,” writes Joyce Carol Oates in her new novel Babysitter....
...Telling the story so far of 34-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood, it explains how a girl from North Carolina ended up in an allegedly abusive relationship with Marilyn Manson....
...Heidi Seaborn’s new collection of poems, ‘An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe’ is published by Pank Books in June Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Lang Lang offered a rushed, soulless excerpt from The Goldberg Variations, recorded in Beijing, although Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato did honour to Strauss and Schubert....
...The poet Wallace Stevens wrote: “You touch the hotel the way you touch moonlight” in Arrival at the Waldorf. It sounds romantic but, of course, you cannot touch moonlight....
...Wallace — have in common is gutsiness, in the sense of their shared instinct for carnality, meaning the connection between sensuality and meaty-eatiness....
...’s 1961 film about cowboys without a cause starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe....
...And there are scores of often comic fan artworks and memes putting famous figures in the sweater and shades, from Papa Smurf and Bart Simpson to Marilyn Monroe and Donald Trump....
...Cricket yielded a great book (CLR James’s Beyond a Boundary, 1963) and tennis a great essay (David Foster Wallace’s “Federer as Religious Experience”, 2006)....
...Meanwhile, DT Max’s excellent biography, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (2012), did for Wallace what Richard Ellmann did for Joyce, cementing his reputation as one of the most intellectually formidable...
...Expect more startling moves in April at the Joyce Theater, when Dorrance and company join forces with break dancer Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie and electronic tap innovator Nicholas Van Young....
...Executive, Rapid Biosensor Systems Dr Nigel Banister Founder & Chief Executive, Rare Biotech Dr Neil Murray Chief Executive, Redx Pharma Tarja Stenvall General Manager, UK & Ireland, Sanofi Craig Wallace...
...The work of David Foster Wallace is dismissed as hipster junkie-lit (“Foster Wallace isn’t a genius....
...He did it again, this time for celebrity biography, with his speculative take on Marilyn Monroe’s desires and demons....
...James Joyce, because of the depth of his wisdom. And I’d expect to hear a few jokes as well. What are you most proud of writing?...
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
...(I also loved James Joyce, who seemed to me the heir to Dickens word-inebriation). I’d had enough of Leavis’s beetle-browed prohibitions....
...The British novelist Martin Amis, a keen amateur player, used tennis as a metaphor to compare the writing styles of Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce....
...Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by DT Max, Granta, RRP£20 The first biography of the author of Infinite Jest (1996), who committed suicide in 2008, follows Wallace from...
...Stephen Wallace’s Medoro has more trouble plumbing his depths but delivers a liquidly phrased Verdi allori....
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