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British writer Angela Carter was a creative trailblazer. And in 1979, she published a book attempting the near impossible, claiming Sade –pornographer and literary bad boy – as a proto-feminist.

On Jan. 27, 1977, a St. Louis judge issued an order closing the Stardust Club. It was not contested by co-owner Aimee Charles, who under the name Evelyn West performed

 "A letter can be preserved—read, re-read, studied, carried with one, cherished. It is not ephemeral, like a telephone call—quickly done, and just as easily forgotten."

It’s a spring day on Oracabessa Bay’s secluded Button Beach, and the sun is liberally tossing its morning diamonds on a breeze-ruffled sea. A man of a certain age —

John Galbraith Simmons reviews Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History.”...

Eric Ormsby on “Flaubert: A Biography” by Frederick Brown.

In her memoir “The Critic’s Daughter,” Priscilla Gilman recounts her life with intensely intellectual — and very different — parents.

It’s the late ’70s in New York, the Studio 54 Era, when being a gossip columnist for the New York Post was a prestige job. How one writer crashed and burned under the bright lights of celebrity and scandal. 

SOUTHBURY — Lois Miller Abrams, a longtime resident of Southbury and Warren, passed away on January 22, 2022, after a long enthusiastic enjoyment of life and a brief illness at

The Russian Samovar in Manhattan became a hub for artists and writers far from home, drawing eminent regulars like Joseph Brodsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.