The holiday season was too busy for me to compile this sort of list, especially with a move to a new home thrown in, an event that always makes one ambivalent about book ownership anyhow. “Isn’t time to invest in a Kindle?” was the crack my younger economist friend made as we filled . . . . Continue Reading »
Whit Stillman fans know that his first three films are a loosely connected trilogy of sorts, with THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO being the film that ties them together by means of our meeting key characters from the other two in its Club. How then, does his recent DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, a rather stranger . . . . Continue Reading »
Note: I mean “takes” on the subject, not necessarily on the book. 1) Here’s a 2009 review of a biography of Helen Gurley Brown , author of Sex and the Single Girl , the landmark 1962 book—both for the Sexual Revolution and 60s feminism—and editor-in-chief of . . . . Continue Reading »
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