Wednesday, July 7 2010
‘The American Stage’ Is Best Enjoyed As Theatre As Literature
A collection of 200-plus years of writing about the American theatre betrays a clear preference for the past over the present.
Friday, October 17 2008
Honoré de Balzac: A Man of Enormous Appetites
One has to wonder, having conquered two duchesses before reaching his 25th birthday, if Honoré de Balzac didn't believe he deserved the aristocratic title in his name more than some who'd come by it more honestly.
Wednesday, April 4 2007
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
While many of us are proud of reading regularly, voraciously, or eclectically, how many of us really pay close attention to what we read?
Monday, January 23 2006
Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue by Spalding Gray, Francine Prose
It just sounds like the way Spalding Gray would die. His would not be a life finished by old age, or the standard natural causes. No, Gray's existence was fated to end like most of his monologues.
Monday, April 25 2005
A Changed Man by Francine Prose
Vincent Nolan's act is a convincing one; one that even he begins to believe the more he preaches it.
