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...Books are slow. Reading is slow. You have to take your time with it. THC: What are your thoughts on your past nomination for the Pulitzer Prize? KS: I was very pleased. But I don’t think it made a difference. I think it was fun that Louisa Solano, who ran the Grolier at the time, threw a party. That was fun. By the time a book is finished you are so much involved in the next book really—because the production of the book takes a bit of time. So you’re already...
...learn the ropes in the art market on your own, too, of course, insist Louisa Buck and Judith Greer, who offer many of the following tips and more in Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector's Handbook. (Greer will lecture as part of the Frieze course...
...stories we read when we were growing up have a profound effect on the way we view the world. I grew up on my mother’s old Louisa May Alcott novels, resulting in a slanted worldview in which, for example, cousin marriage is permissible. (One choice Alcott novel features a plot that requires the heroine to choose which of her eight first cousins to marry.) Though I was informed by my concerned parents at age seven that such practices are, at least in our society, inappropriate, my attachment to Alcott remains. There comes a time when...
...LOUISA R. MALKIN...
...comes to a biography of the literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t get behind this style of all hype and no substance. In a delivery disastrously aimed at the hip-intellectual readership, Susan Cheever’s “American Bloomsbury” reduces Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to a group of 19th Century Bennifers and Brangelinas. Cheever aims to make “Bloomsbury” a colorful yet historically accurate piece of literary criticism, and her ostensible desire to liberate her subjects from...