About a Boy
My favorite thing about this movie isn’t Hugh Grant, though he gives one of his best performances. It isn’t Nicholas Hoult, who is equally »
Something More of Quickness
Pride and Prejudice, chapter 1 The first chapter of Pride and Prejudice begins with a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, but the novel is not »
In Which I Think Too Much About A Bad Book
> “You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass.” WH Auden. Jane Austen was dead to begin »
The Bad Jane Austen Novel Project
Bad Jane Austen novel? Don't worry, it's not one of hers. Long story short: sometime in highschool I discovered the emerging cottage »
1776
There’s a moment during the second musical number in 1776 when star William Daniels, perhaps accidentally, manages to convey with just his body language the »