by Anna Vaught || She was famous, too, as a sort of glamorous defective.
Category: Features
Poems for an Emergency
I’ve been reading a lot this past while, or trying to. So have many of us - first distanced and then locked down, my Twitter feed is full of people tackling the weightiest tomes on their to be read pile.
Little Women: A Film for Writers
Lucy Cuthew Greta Gerwig’s six-times Academy Award nominated Little Women is, at its heart, a film about, and for, writers. In a post on Emma Watson’s Instagram following the nominations, Gerwig said: “This film of Little Women has been over thirty years in the making, from the very first time Louisa May Alcott and Jo March reached across [...]
On Libraries
At their core, they are a reminder of what is truly possible.
My Year of Reading Women
Dani McCarthy When I was very young, each Sunday, I would wake my parents at first light, leaping between them without any grace. I would burrow there for hours, a peaceful silence settling over the house as my Dad read his book and my Mum pottered around the house. Eventually we moved into a flat [...]
