In a 1987 interview, Arthur Miller talks about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. In addition to thoughtful insight into Monroe’s psychology, he discusses the reception of After The Fall, a play he wrote about his relationship with Monroe.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay reads her poem “Love is Not All.” Her high-faluting accent and theatrical style may seem dated today, but in the 1920s, Millay’s reading tours regularly sold out to rapt crowds.
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Here’s Nabokov talking about his novel Lolita on a 1950s CBC program \”Close Up.” The interview is at the height of the controversy surrounding the book, which was banned due to its theme of child molestation. When asked his intentions in writing it, Nabokov replies: “I don’t wish to touch hearts and I don’t even
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Agape Charmani for Art-Sheep Marc Johns is the kind of artist who creates the most imaginatively smart illustrations, in which his characters get involved in the most surreal situations. And while his fans are always more than happy when he shares new work on his blog or his Facebook page, they\’re going to be thrilled
Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep Greetings, my brave reader. ‘Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?’ – \”Going Postal\” [33rd Discworld novel] Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett, Terry, Pratchett… My childish and certainly feeble attempts to help keep Terry Pratchett alive are nothing compared to the legacy
Here’s Nabokov talking about his novel Lolita on a 1950s CBC program \”Close Up.” The interview is at the height of the controversy surrounding the book, which was banned due to its theme of child molestation. When asked his intentions in writing it, Nabokov replies: “I don’t wish to touch hearts and I don’t even
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In this 1952 interview, John Steinbeck talked about writing The Grapes of Wrath and how things had changed since the book was published in 1939. He’s surprisingly optimistic about the changes in American society since the Great Depression: “We have solved so many of [the problems] and the solutions have been the product of ourselves,
Jonathan Stone for Art-Sheep In today\’s weird but extremely enjoyable list of things, we have collected a series of 40 bad, really bad, titles on book covers. Whether they were puns written by the authors, the publisher\’s choice or simply, the subject of what\’s inside, books with titles like, \”The Best Dad Is A Good
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Amazon currently spots just a single copy, handsomely priced at $12,900! Salvador Dali, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his work, illustrated one of the greatest and most surreal literary works of all time: Alice in Wonderland. In 1985, 20 thousand shiny and carefully crafted new books were distributed with the title Alice’s
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Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins by Jonathan Stone Book lovers are going to love this project, as we know very well how important visual depictions of book characters are. The magic can be easily lost as often studios cast the wrong actors to play famous book heroes, causing the outrage of
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