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Jane’s Lace
One of the difficulties of adapting Persuasion, Jane Austen’s sixth and final finished novel, for film is that so much of its drama is internal: encoded in an indirect glance, in the brush of hand...
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Literary Dinners; Crumbling Apartments
I’ve been dreaming of hosting a cozy winter dinner party based on a famous meal from literature. What famous feasts are the most completely described? I’d like to be able to re-create the menu, the...
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Loose Lips
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true. —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray I spent a...
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Pink Cigarettes
Lighting up. Why not? I smoked my first cigarette with three or four friends near the pond behind our middle school. We obeyed all the stereotypes, puffing and passing, accusing one another of not...
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How Do We Bury the Writing of the Dead?
For over a hundred thousand years, we’ve buried our dead. Broadly speaking, the act has no functional purpose; according to the World Health Organization, only bodies carrying infectious diseases...
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