Which 19th Century Horror Character are you?

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

  You scored as Dorian Gray. You are the immortal, narcissistic bachelor from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Your physical beauty is matchless and your reputation, spotless. Meanwhile, your portrait suffers continual disfiguration as you pursue a secret life of debauchery, revealing the true content of your damnable soul. Dorian Gray   54% [...]

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It’s like something out of an Ian McEwan novel…

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Also from Critical Mass: [Ian] McEwan’s mother, Rose, conceived a son through an extramarital affair while her husband was away at war. In order to give the son away before her husband came home, she placed this ad in the local paper: “Wanted, home for baby boy, aged one month: complete surrender.” Not as sad [...]

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Revival of the serialized novel

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Serialized novels have been popping up here and there in the past couple of years: The New York Times Magazine, Harpers. Now the Washington Post has taken up the baton with Jezebel’s Tomb by David Hilzenrath. You can read it in bi-weekly installments or order a hard copy via print-on-demand. In 1883, a Jerusalem merchant [...]

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