Dana Stevens Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The confusing release strategies of the current movie landscape mean that I reviewed a few big movies opening this weekend well before they were widely available. So here are the reviews again. Sarah Polley's bold, brave, wise & often funny Women Talking: https://t.co/r13a8Vv6zA

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@monostich Listening to Jane Eyre as an audiobook read by Juliet Stevenson & finishing a galley of the upcoming Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman.

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@jasondashbailey I doubt you’ll have time to go, but there’s an exhibit about James Joyce and the women who made the publication of Ulysses possible at the Harry Ransom Center on campus and it’s incredibly well done (& free!)

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I spent much of our @SlateCultFest segment on Station Eleven this week going on about her! Matilda Lawler. Not only a brilliant performance, but the rare part for a child that is written as a distinct human being rather than a generic threatened innocent. https://slate.com/podcasts/culture-gabfest/2022/01/discussing-station-eleven-joan-didion-movie-club-2021 https://twitter.com/rakeshsatyal/status/1479868463455813635

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@dlcantwell Have you read Stanley Cavell's Pursuits of Happiness? Not specifically about Grant, but it covers that territory super-well. And there is an excellent new-ish Cary Grant biography out from Scott Eyman, whose book The Speed of Sound & his LB Mayer bio were sources for my book.

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@adamm0rgan I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, a bit--at least Nora E. would like that universe.

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@jasondashbailey A few that come to mind: Barry Paris on Louise Brooks; Gerald Clarke on Judy Garland; Furious Love by Sam Kushner & Nancy Schoenberger (about Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton's relationship); Scott Eyman's bio of Louis B. Mayer or his new one of Cary Grant.

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Just noting that the newly announced winner of the 2023 Caldecott medal, the wonderful Hot Dog by the wonderful Doug Salati, contains a crowd scene with an image of my dog & her (& my) favorite human: https://t.co/cokHTRnHkl https://t.co/rHieRlWeNF

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The new Emily Brontë biopic is atrociously bad & @magiciansbook's review pinpoints why. My personal least favorite bit: how Charlotte is shown as an envious older sister who ... only writes Jane Eyre after the publication of Wuthering Heights? WTAF? https://t.co/0AzEGmadng

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RT @womensart1: Tove Jansson (1957) from Moominland Midwinter. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the…