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...expect that,” she says. “People would come up to me and say ‘Are you the poet?’” Currently, Lewis is working on two plays based on the Clytemnestra story, as well as a novella that is a retelling of a medieval Welsh tale. She says that she has been speaking with Harvard faculty members to help her research these projects. Lewis says that she cherishes the Harvard environment for its depth and diversity across different disciplines and is grateful to now be at Harvard...
Lafco NY/Santa Maria Novella, 285 Lafayette Street (212-925-0001). It's across from my office, so I'm always shopping for soaps and candles...
...write about the "new horror," but what's the "old horror" that you would recommend to readers? I would say Frankenstein and Dracula, those two should be read. They aren't anything at all alike. There's a great novella by Arthur Machen called "The Great God Pan." Knocked my socks off when I was thirteen. Anything by Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House or The Demon Lover, which is a fabulous story-very eerie, but completely realistic. It suggests that there's a realm that we are very close to, but cannot quite apprehend, a realm that...
...powerful state of mind, one that swallows up all other thought.In the volume’s longest essay, “Terror and Boredom: the Dependent Mind,” Amis interweaves his analytical plot of the development and effects of radical Islamism with the personal story of a novella he had abandoned, called “The Unknown Known,” in reference to Donald Rumsfeld’s taxonomy of terrorist threats. He abandoned the satirical work not because he had lost his inspiration, he says, but rather because in the face of “total...
...King has always seen the promise inherent in the Internet. It's a medium designed to get as much content to as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. And there are few people who have as much content as King. In 2000, he debuted his novella Riding the Bullet exclusively on the Web; more than 400,000 downloads were recorded in the first 24 hours. At the time it was a staggering number. This month, King is dipping his toe into the Internet yet again. To promote Just After Sunset - his first volume of short stories...