On 'The Secret History': I Know What You Did Last Reading Period
@jfruh See, the thought of studying any writing pre-Skelton makes me want to fall asleep but then I read something like this and I get classicist envy.
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On 'The Secret History': I Know What You Did Last Reading Period
@Myles Tanzer This is a dream class! I'm speculating on what I'd assign on the syllabus...
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On 'The Secret History': I Know What You Did Last Reading Period
This is twinned with Daniel Handler's Basic Eight in my head as "sneaky sexy books about college that I read just before I went to college man oh man where are my posh aesthete friends and murder victims?". A+.
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On 'Exile On Main Street,' In Order
@LondonLee
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker for first, always and forever!
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On 'Exile On Main Street,' In Order
@En Vague
18. Girls! Girls! Girls!
17. Shatter
16. Gunshy
15. Flower
14. Canary
13. Never Said
12. Dance of the Seven Veils
11. Strange Loop
10. Glory
9. Johnny Sunshine
8. Explain It To Me
7. Stratford-on-Guy
6. Help Me Mary
5. 6'1"
4. Soap Star Joe
3. Fuck and Run
2. Mesmerizing
1. Divorce Song
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On Six Authors Who Were Copywriters First
Another (apocryphal?) addendum to the Dorothy Sayers story is that the original bird in Gilroy's Guinness zoo was a pelican, but Sayers convinced them to change it to a toucan in order to pun on "two cans", etc.
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On 'Pet Sematary': A Reminder That Zombie Cats Make Terrible Pets
@whoneedslight
Also my new Favourite Thing! I'm going to use it myself.
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On 'Pet Sematary': A Reminder That Zombie Cats Make Terrible Pets
@ellbeejay
Oh, they just sort of have a facial similarity, no? Plus, I suppose, both are very talented, no-nonsense Boss Ladies who are so monolithic in their respective fields that they can kinda get away with diva-ish behahaviour and bizarr-o career choices (that book on dogs that Garber wrote? Patti LuPone appearing on Glee?).
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On 'Pet Sematary': A Reminder That Zombie Cats Make Terrible Pets
@ellbeejay
I agree with your last point. Marjorie Garber is the Patti LuPone of academia.
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On 'The Autobiography Of Henry VIII': Which Ill-Fated Wife Would You Be?
Ugh, The Tudors is the WORST although I am probably bitter cause I once tried to sneak onto set (parts of it were filmed in the castle up the road from me) and was ceremoniously turfed out.