Lillian Hellman & Jenny Craig

Tinyletter, Big Heart: Part IV

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Ito

/ Dennis Milam Bensie / Letters & Essays
“Awww. You did the best you could do. Well, at least your theatre didn’t make Ito white,” he said.

IATSE

TinyLetter, Big Heart: Part III

/ Nandini Balial and Rohin Guha / Letters & Essays
Here at Queen Mob’s Tea House I’ve been archiving my favorite TinyLetters from Rohin Guha. […]

Earnest With Debra Messing

/ Dennis Milam Bensie / Letters & Essays
“Oh my god, that girl sucks all the air out of the room,” Lady Bracknell commented during dress rehearsal.

Lynn Redgrave and Betty

/ Dennis Milam Bensie / Letters & Essays
I remembered watching Lynn Redgrave with my mother on the television show, House Calls. I was in awe.

The King And I

TinyLetter, Big Heart: Part II

/ Nandini Balial and Rohin Guha / Letters & Essays
A few weeks ago I began archiving my favorite TinyLetters from writer Rohin Guha’s 2015 […]

Into the Woods

Of Canons and Marginal Poets

/ Edward Simon / Letters & Essays
Unless you are a scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth century literature you have probably never heard of John Taylor the Water Poet. Or for that matter Robert Greene, the bohemian university wit, or Richard Barnfield, the sodomitical sonneteer.

Bye, Bye Birdie

Close Reading as Genre

TinyLetter, Big Heart: Part I

/ Nandini Balial and Rohin Guha / Letters & Essays
I’ve never met Rohin Guha. I’ve never heard his voice. I don’t know how tall […]

The Privileged Mope

/ Emily Linstrom / Letters & Essays
A "Privileged Mope" is genetically blessed with good looks, ample time, and the kind of ennui perfume ads aspire to sell you on.

I Hate New Year’s, Signed Antonio Gramsci

/ Antonio Gramsic translation by Allison Grimaldi Donahue / Letters & Essays
One hundred years ago the great Italian socialist thinker and activist Antonio Gramsci published this […]

A Gallery Reopening

Dear Neighbor

Who do I sue, Abigail Fisher?

Figure Writing, 101

/ Lania Knight / Letters & Essays
Figure writing is a variation of the observations all writers must make. It comes, though, laden with tension. Staring at a model while sitting in a room full of other writers doing exactly the same thing is an invitation to intimacy

DFW Meets Bart Simpson: Part II

Stuff Happens

Catullus and Forgetting