Hello, my angels! If you’ve been reading along on Beguiling you know I reverence Ms. Davis. She was bold and brilliant and always laid it on the line. In that spirit I am about to make some changes here on the blog which I hope you will enjoy, and which…
Category: London
“Are the words well chosen and do the characters live? All the rest belongs to literary gossip. You are not in this class to learn how to be gossip-writers.” A Visit to Morin, a short story by Graham Greene The prolific Mr. Greene had over a dozen of his novels…
…and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them at times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings…
“What a piece of work is a man!” Click here for John Gielgud reading Hamlet. Mr. Gielgud’s “Hamlet” Originally published on 16 October 1944 LONDON, SATURDAY. The tremendous merit of Mr. John Gielgud’s long-awaited “Hamlet” (produced last night at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) is its fidelity. Neither the production nor…
This is a picture one of my older brothers texted me on Friday moments before he got a mandatory evacuation order as the western side of the Sierras went up in flames. He said it was getting difficult to breathe. Both my brothers live in the area. If you look…
When I was young, living in London, my parents took me to see Ingrid Bergman in Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife at the Albery Theatre. I remember very little of the play (a drawing room comedy first staged in 1926 with Ethel Barrymore in the lead) but what I do…
Catherine Nichols has found that submitting her manuscript under a male pseudonym brought her more than eight times the number of responses she had received under her own name. “It’s assumed that women writers will not write anything important – anything truly serious or necessary, revelatory or wise.” “Our work…