April 21, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: "Girls! Girls! Girls! Did You Marry Your First ‘Gentlemen Caller’?" The 1950 screen version of The Glass Menagerie has been judged the “first and worst” adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play. Williams himself abhorred it as “the most awful travesty… horribly mangled,” lacking any vestige of the poetic techniques of the play. Although Williams helped to adapt the script, he… read more
April 12, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsThe Paris Review celebrates James Salter Month James Salter is being honored later this month with The Paris Review’s Hadada Prize, which is awarded annually to a “distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to literature.” The award will be presented to Salter by Robert Redford, who, in an unrelated… read more
March 22, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: Russell Banks adapts to a word processor Today it seems, with iPads and hybrid cars and 3-D blockbusters, technology advancements are, quite literally, right in our faces. Almost jaded by the constant onslaught, we expect constant development and easily adapt, rarely finding ourselves bewildered by new devices. This, however, was not always so. American author Russell Banks’s… read more
