Word: bittersweetness
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...Esther and Miriam take up residence with a family friend, the lonely scion of a local industrialist, whose family are all dead. A French governess provides a comic and blissfully domestic antidote to the earlier scenes of outrageous hardship. As the story winds up, it concludes with a bittersweet scene of love lost and found. Even as fiction it would be one of the best stories I've read in the last year, but as a memoir it leaves you speechless. Miriam Katin's We Are On Our Own should not be missed by anyone with an interest history...
...British Museum where a friend of Watson's was working last decade, and her work is about the sometimes painful process of cultural retrieval. Watson, 46, who traces her lineage to the Waanyi country of northwest Queensland, calls her blue "the liquid color of dreams." In this case bittersweet ones, for Watson's work expresses the disquiet indigenous Australians can feel in seeing their ancient artefacts in foreign collections. Acid-etched across the front window, the artist's museum piece seeks to challenge "the ethnographic perceptions of Aboriginal culture and traditions," says Watson. "The more that our presence is felt...
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was the sleeper hit of 2005. It tells the bittersweet, perfectly observed story about Lee, a quiet Midwestern girl who tries, with decidedly mixed results, to fit in at a breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list...
Many other singers had better pipes or more agile techniques. But nobody transformed a song into something as deeply personal and affecting--and swinging--as Holiday. In these two discs, her reedy, frayed-at-the-edges voice, teasingly lagging the beat, instinctively breathes the bittersweet essence of the jazz life. What's more, she is surrounded by the finest sidemen of the era (1935-42), including pianist Teddy Wilson and her musical and emotional soul mate, tenor saxophonist Lester Young...
...wife is planning suicide. 1994’s “Durang/Durang,” an evening of six short plays, includes a Tennessee Williams-inspired, gender flipping parody, titled “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls.”BEYOND HARVARD For Durang, Harvard holds many bittersweet reminders of his undergraduate years—memories that he might revisit this weekend, during his visit.You might find Durang visiting Weld (his freshman dorm), or checking out his old stomping grounds at the Loeb Experimental Theater. It was there that he directed at Harvard for the first time...