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Amber Ruffin & Kevin Sciretta's BIGFOOT & More Set for New York Stage And Film 2024 Summer Season
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. New York Stage and Film has unveiled its 2024 Summer Season at Marist College, kicking off this July in Poughkeepsie, NY. For 39 years, NYSAF has operated as a vital incubator for artists and their work, a catalyst for stories that continue across the country and around the world.
“Marriage Quarantine”
Mom would say, “Tell Carl yada yada,” and then Dad would say, “Tell Barb I’m aware of that, but I thought we’d first yada yada yada yada.” Six yadas. That must have been some conversation. You get the idea. What breed? This isn’t about the dog. But if it were a basset hound or something, with those ears, I could picture it, an ear like a walkie-talkie. That would have been funny. It wasn’t funny. Sorry. She was a mutt. Regular ears. A hound mutt? Newfie mutt. Curly black hair. A little white on her chest.
What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It?
Fiction Image In Walbert’s stories, the love of women for their children can provide salvation or a trap. Or both. Oct. 1, 2019, 3:42 p.m. ET SHE WAS LIKE THAT By Kate Walbert Here is a map of a land of mothers: mothers before the babies come; mothers in the throes of infant love; mothers minding children; mothers losing children; mothers losing themselves.
SHE WAS LIKE THAT
In Kidd’s (The Invention of Wings, 2014, etc.) feminist take on the New Testament, Jesus has a wife whose fondest longing is to write. Ana is the daughter of Matthias, head scribe to Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. She demonstrates an exceptional aptitude for writing, and Matthias, for a time, indulges her with reed pens, papyri, and other 16 C.E. office supplies.
Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action
“Harbor” takes place in a Bulgarian resort town, shortly before the season starts. How important is the idea of that transitional or interstitial stage to the story? There are lots of harbors in this story: the literal harbor where it ends; the emotional harbor of a relationship, which the narrator has lost, or is in the process of losing; the harbor or parenthesis formed by an occasion like a writers’ conference; the harbor of the pocket of time before a vacation town comes to life.
“To Do,” by Kate Walbert
Audio: Kate Walbert reads. Her mother had been a beauty, a green-eyed blonde who wore a long braid down her back in high school and then college (Vassar ’57), in New York (Katie Gibbs ’58), and her job in the typing pool at Westinghouse, before she was asked (actually, told) to adopt the more stylish updos of the time.
7 Books about WASPs
John Cheever stories, A Separate Peace, Mad Men, and other stories about White Anglo Saxon Protestants continue to exert an enduring appeal: there’s magnetism to the blue blazer, the understated hymn, the stiff upper lip attempted and disastrously abandoned.
The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel
“This is not a story I’ve told before” is how “His Favorites” begins — a caveat, but also a statement that binds its narrator, Jo, into a larger collective. When she was 15, and a student at an elite Northeastern boarding school, Jo was coerced into a sexual relationship with a charismatic and manipulative English teacher. Many years later, she’s confronting what happened to her: how she was cajoled and groomed by a skilled predator, and how his actions were imprinted on the rest of her life.
#MeToo movement in fiction: ‘Vox,’ ‘Putney’ and more timely releases
In the 10 months since the initial reports on sexual assault and harassment allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, reverberations and reckonings from the #MeToo movement have cascaded across the country, from Hollywood to Broadway, the arts to academia, journalism to politics. The drumbeat of accusations has slowed, but the examination of the entrenched culture of abuse and misogyny in our society is not going away.
HIS FAVORITES by Kate Walbert
An acclaimed American author looks at sexual abuse. On a warm summer night in the 1970s, teenage Jo convinces her two best friends, Carly and Stephanie, to steal a golf cart at the country club and go for a drunken joy ride. Jo is behind the wheel, so she is the one responsible when an accident leaves Stephanie dead. Jo and her family become outcasts in their small Maryland suburb, so it seems like a stroke of luck when Jo is accepted into an elite boarding school in Massachusetts.
A Century Before Hillary
Early May and the lilacs are in bloom, the forsythias just past their prime, as Colonel E. Jacob Crull, of Roundup, Montana, climbs the front steps of a funeral establishment in Elkhart, Indiana. He carries a bottle of muriatic acid and the refrain “beaten by a woman,” a taunt he has hoped to escape by visiting his sister in their home town.
Has Anything Changed for Female Politicians?
Early May and the lilacs are in bloom, the forsythias just past their prime, as Colonel E. Jacob Crull, of Roundup, Montana, climbs the front steps of a funeral establishment in Elkhart, Indiana. He carries a bottle of muriatic acid and the refrain “beaten by a woman,” a taunt he has hoped to escape by visiting his sister in their home town.
Kate Walbert's 'Sunken Cathedral': Wise and beautifully written
Posted: Sunday, June 28, 2015, 3:01 AM The Sunken Cathedral By Kate Walbert Scribner. 208 pp. $25 Reviewed by Katherine Bailey In 1910, Debussy based one of his preludes on an ancient Breton myth depicting a cathedral in the sea that sometimes rose up to great heights and sometimes disappeared in the white-capped water. Kate Walbert, author of A Short History of Women, has aptly chosen The Sunken Cathedral for the title of her latest accomplished offering.
10 big fat beach reads to look out for this summer
Whether you’re hunting for a book to read with your feet in the sand, or one that will make you forget you’re not on vacation, there’s something for you this summer. Check out the best of these big fat beach reads, coming soon to a bookstore (or handheld screen) near you! Saint Mazieby Jami Attenberg Gregarious Mazie Phillips keeps a diary as she opens up her New York City movie theater, the Venice, to the city’s homeless during the Depression.
The Sunken Cathedral (Hardcover)
From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award nominee and author of "A Short History of Women," a deeply moving novel that follows a cast of old and young characters as they negotiate one of Manhattan's accelerating, shifting neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-first century New York.Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city, survivors of World War II in Europe.
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