Ira Levin’s masterpiece, Rosemary’s Baby, was published in 1967 and has aged remarkably well. The references within the story are all very specifically located in time (the fall of 1965 until the summer of 1966), but that, perhaps counterintuitively, helps make the thing work so well today. The minutiae of daily life that Levin presents [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Nothing Is Scary
Posted in Books on January 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Domestic Vampires
Posted in Books on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is best known for her short stories in A New England Nun, and her attention to the local color of New England culture and language puts her in the same category as other northeastern writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett and, yes, Stephen King. I add King’s name here because [...]
Sabbatical
Posted in Books on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When I last wrote, I was about to get caught up in a storm of annoyances, mostly work-related: my department chair was leaning heavily on me to do her work for her, new committees were trying to seduce me into joining, and too many student essays awaited grading. As a result, the blog took a [...]
