Reading
She commanded so much respect that when Playboy interviewed Ayn Rand in the ’60s, she edited the interview, striking some of the writer’s questions, rearranging her answers, and instructing Playboy‘s editor how she wanted her introduction to read.
She wrote a novel that people voted as the most influential book, next to the Bible.
She had an affair with a man half her age, with the consent of both their spouses.
She also, according to author of Ayn Rand and The World She Made Kindle book, made a uniform of a black velvet cape, a gold dollar-sign brooch, and an ivory cigarette holder, and used prescription amphetamines to fuel 24-hour writing sessions.
My sort of lady…
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09.Nov.2009
Reading
I just re-read Joseph Conrad’s novel The Inheritors. Written in 1900 by the author of Heart of Darkness, The Inheritors is a critique and prediction of 20th century politics: the old order is dragged down by Machiavellian materialists who value only expediency and power.
Tack “and pink chiffon” onto that last sentence, and you have Project Runway winner Christian Siriano’s tome, Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self.
Kidding. The ebook’s fun and fierce. Fierce, like, undefinably, positively positive, not, like, literally fierce, like fictional politicians who are keen on killing British aristocracy…
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08.Oct.2009
Wanting
The Honest Courtesan, a study of Venetian courtesan and writer Veronica Franco’s life and work, is written from a feminist perspective. The Honest Courtesan shows how Franco used her social position to write in defense of women, and how Franco argued the courtesan’s role as having intellectual and artistic — rather than erotic — significance.
Franco was probably a tease like me — The Honest Courtesan isn’t an eBook yet, which is why I’m left in “wanting”…
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09.Sep.2009
Hating
Edith Wharton was an early motorist who’d tool around obscure villages in New England on the weekend. Ethan Frome was inspired by her visits to these tiny towns, along with an accident she witnessed near her Massachusetts home.
Ethan Frome is a man in a meaningless marriage, who falls in love with his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie, when she comes to live with Ethan and his wife as a caretaker. Ethan and Mattie make an impromptu suicide pact that warps into a living death for both of them. Written as well as only Edith Wharton can –
Ethan Frome‘s the feel-good ebook of the summer…
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21.Aug.2009
