ZELDA: THE MADWOMAN IN THE FLAPPER DRESS My November Column at Bookslut“Is a pen a metaphorical penis?” Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar asked in their seminal study of women writers and the literary imagination The Madwoman in the Attic (1979, reissued 2011). Their answer was a resounding, if comp...
This is a remarkable biography, for a multitude of reasons.First, I must admit my own ignorance when it comes to much of Millay's work. I think I was surprised by how well-known she was in her day. I took advanced English courses in high school, studied English quite a bit in college, and yet my ...
It was icy cold, and “the trees are hardly in bud and the field mice are still sheltering in my house. I don’t blame the poor little brutes,” Eugen wrote to Dillon. “I am doing the same myself.” But the weather would turn warm, their pool would be swimmable, their tennis court playable, “so what ...