1963 Was a Nice Year for Criticism

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November 25, 2012

Adrienne Rich on Paul Goodman; Norman Mailer on Morley Callaghan; Susan Sontag on Simone Weil; W.H. Auden on David Jones; Gore Vidal on John Hersey; and $1.45 new releases. The inaugural issue of The New York Review of Books is a sight to behold.

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‘Sweetbitter’ Comes to TV

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October 8, 2017

Stephanie Danler’s best-selling, semi-autobiographical novel, Sweetbitter, has been given the green light by Starz network for a six-episode series. “As she learns the ropes of restaurant work, [Tess] falls for bad-boy bartender Jake, and makes her first forays into wine, drugs, lust, betrayal and adulthood,” writes the Los Angeles Times.  Pair with Jason Arthur‘s essay on novels about work.

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Alice Walker on Screen

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February 5, 2014

Still deciding what to do this Friday night? Watch PBS’s new documentary on Alice Walker, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, at 9 p.m. EST. At The Daily Beast, Agunda Okeyo discusses the history of the film’s production, which took six years. “Stories about women of color told by women of color are sidelined and neglected in favor of our stories being told by white women and men,” director Pratibha Parmar says.

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