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...12-year-old Jan (Hendrix Yancey)....
...Looking for “real” folk music, Warner vice-president Mike Maitland approached Bob Dylan’s manager to see what else he had and ended up signing Peter, Paul and Mary, an engaging trio who captured the hearts...
...AI featured heavily in Jeanette Winterson’s 2019 Frankissstein, a reimagining of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic; in 2021 she returns to the subject in a series of essays 12 Bytes (Jonathan Cape, June)....
...In the 201 years since its first publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been reimagined countless times....
...Far from being a loose collective of single-issue campaigns, feminism strikes at the core of the problem — one that Mary Wollstonecraft nailed in 1792 in the pages of A Vindication of the Rights of Women...
...Eric Anderson riffs on the juxtaposition of blue plaques for both Handel and Jimi Hendrix on one house in Brook Street (Letters, July 27)....
...Two celebrated recent books on our changing world Frankissstein Jeanette Winterson explores AI, genetics and the meaning of life in this riotous twist on Mary Shelley’s classic Machines Like Me A new...
...She details how Delaney’s authentic depiction of working-class life influenced many younger writers and artists (from Morrissey through Andrea Dunbar and Jeanette Winterson, to Maxine Peake)....
...All this buzz about AI has also sparked the imagination of some of our most inventive novelists, among them Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan....
...Frankissstein: A Love Story , by Jeanette Winterson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27 The shores of Lake Geneva, 1816, a gathering of Romantics and the creative force of a teenage Mary Shelley...
...to “breathe new life” into Mary Shelley’s great gothic horror through issues of identity, technology and sexuality....
...Listen and subscribe to Everything Else, the FT culture podcast, at ft.com/everything-else or on Apple Podcasts Letter in response to this article: If Handel and Hendrix were neighbours / From Eric A....
...Mary Portas, the retail consultant and guru of the high street, has always been clear about the effect that hollowed-out neighbourhoods have on those who live in them....
...Just over a year ago, I heard the novelist Jeanette Winterson speak at the launch of her latest book....
...I was going to make a Mary Berry chicken curry, a version of coronation chicken but hot . . .” Mutual friend and fellow novelist Kamila Shamsie was called upon to mediate....
...The “desert blues” tag associated with Songhoy could also be applied to W.I.T.C.H., who were aiming for an African take on Hendrix’s brand of psychedelia....
...Jeanette Winterson, the novelist, runs Verde and Co, a deli in east London, which faces closure after being issued with a 59 per cent increase in rates, phased over three years....
...There are a number of good schools and universities nearby, including Queen Mary as well as Cass and Hult business schools....
...Washington DC’s Ex Hex have a classic front-row line-up in cult singer/guitarist Mary Timony and bassist Betsy Wright, a duelling, high-kicking pinnacle of energy held steady by drummer Laura Harris....
...Peter Frankopan Author of ‘The Silk Roads’ I absolutely loved Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile). It is a sparkling book that brings the past to life....
...The doll-sized Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, may have founded The Row as Hollywood dilettantes in 2006 but they have stealthily succeeded in creating a line in highly accomplished hipster couture that...
...Barbara Sukowa, swapping bons mots with Janet McTeer’s Mary McCarthy and political-philosophical bromides with everyone else, deploys a stage-German accent, all “ziss, zat and ze uzzer”. (Why?...
...“I find sweaty, gyrating and noisy performances like his repulsive” the then BBC chairman Lord Hill wrote of Jimi Hendrix in 1969, “so I imagine do you....
...The foreword by Jeanette Winterson, chair of this year’s Forward Prize judges, asserts the power of verse in an age of mass culture....
...Also, it appears opposite Mary Quant, and the contrast is so extreme: I think that’s why I put those two together....
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