Columns
Thursday, December 3 2009
Little Women: Brilliant Book, Flawed Film
A scene shows Ryder blissfully tying up the manuscript and putting a rose under the string. That's rather like what Armstrong and the screenwriters did to the film: tied it up neatly with a pretty flower.
Reviews
Wednesday, March 9 2011
The Sheer Will, Creative Force, and Contagious Energy of 'Louisa May Alcott'
If you read Little Women as a child, then this biography will bring back happy memories of why you wanted to be Jo or May or Beth or Amy March, while taking your assumptions about the life of a female children’s book author in the mid-1800s and throwing them straight out the window.
