Long Day’s Journey into being 129 Years Old
Today marks the 129th anniversary of the birth of playwright and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill, one of the most gifted people in history at pairing a set of haunted eyes… Read more »
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, has died
Last Thursday, January 12th, author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty died at the age of eighty-nine. Blatty is best remembered for being the man behind the 1971 novel The Exorcist. That terrifying little tale of… Read more »
Literary correspondence: T.S. Eliot ‘handsome’, Burroughs ‘has gone insane’
How about this for a delightful literary correspondence? In 1961, Electric Literature tells us, Groucho Marx received a request for a portrait from none other than T.S. Eliot. Presumably slightly bemused… Read more »