Dr Seuss' stepdaughter says author 'didn't have a racist bone in his body' dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It is no wonder that the novels of Alison Lurie, which tartly joke at ructions within tight social circles in the manner of Jane Austen, were more popular in Britain than in her native United States
Julie Phillips
“S is for Susan who perished of fits”: Mark Dery offers the first major biography of Edward Gorey.
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
, by Mark Dery, Little, Brown, 503 pages, $35
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By his mid-twenties, the artist and illustrator Edward Gorey had already settled on his signature look: long fur coat, jeans, canvas high-tops, rings on all his fingers, and the full beard of a Victorian intellectual. His enigmatic illustrations of equally fur-coated and Firbankian men in parlors, long-skirted women, and hollow-eyed, doomed children (in
The Gashlycrumb Tinies, among other works) share his own gothic camp aesthetic. Among the obvious questions for a reader of Gorey’s biography are: Where in his psyche, or in the culture, did all those fey fainting ladies and ironic dead tots come from? And, not unrelatedly: Was Gorey gay?
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Enough to make the heart sing: Marc Platt and Katherine Sergava in a 1943 Broadway production of Oklahoma!
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Discover how funny the French are - seriously
Call My Agent (on Netflix now)
The French have not been revered for their comedy on this side of the Channel since the days of Georges Feydeau, but Fanny Herrero s sublime hit series, set in a chic but hyper-stressed Parisian talent agency, is a fleet-footed delight. The fourth and final instalment lands on Netflix this Thursday, so now is the perfect time to indulge in the perfectly tousled lives of Andrea, Mathias, Gabriel and Arlette, as they lurch from one A-list disaster to the next. There s a good reason that the stars - Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci, Jean Reno and Jean Duj
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