Cecil Beaton’s photo of Jane Bowles & Truman Capote
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Monthly Archive for February, 2017
Eudora Welty’s Portrait of Katherine Anne Porter
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Karl Bissinger photos
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Jane Bowles Truman Capote
“The Women” by Hilton Als
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The theme of the writer as the character behind the story was a well-integrated one in this essay. Hilton Als narrates a change in culture towards the theatrical, drama-seeking society that needs to know the dirt behind its entertainment as well as the selfish and sometimes harmful intentions that may reside behind a work of […]
Eileen Myles, “The Honey Bear”
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Billie Holiday was on the radio I was standing in the kitchen smoking my cigarette of this pack I plan to finish tonight last night of smoking youth. I made a cup of this funny kind of tea I’ve had hanging around. A little too sweet an odd mix. My only impulse was to make […]
John Ashbery, “Some Trees”
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These are amazing: each Joining a neighbor, as though speech Were a still performance. Arranging by chance To meet as far this morning From the world as agreeing With it, you and I Are suddenly what the trees try To tell us we are: That their merely being there Means something; that soon We may […]
e.e. cummings, “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself […]
Who owns the gender?: “The Women” by Hilton Als
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Hilton Als’ essay “The Women” is roughly about the author and filmmaker — and artist in many other senses — Truman Capote whose first book was published in 1947. Als stresses that this publication takes place “just when other ‘real’ women could not as freely enter the publishing world” (238). Als characterizes Capote as a woman because of the […]
“The Women”
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Fluid oppositions are a part of several recurring themes that seem to permeate Hilton Als’ White Girls. This is especially true in intentionally gray and multi-layered juxtapositions of gender. In “The Women,” these contrasts are heavily based in what attitudes, specifically the attitudes expressed through authorial voice, are ascribed to singularly women and singularly men. As […]
“The Women” by Hilton Als
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2017
The essay is a critique of the feminine image that Capote steals from women authors to become a ‘white girl.’ Als suggests that by offering a ‘controversial’ author photograph, Capote morphs into a woman to talk about the queerness of his characters in a voice that is uniquely feminine. Thus, Capote becomes a white girl to […]
Truman Capote
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Go here for a brief discussion of the Harold Halma photo of Truman Capote that Hilton Las discusses in his essay “The Women.” “The photo made a huge impression on many artists,” the blog post’s author, Alex Selwyn-Holmes, writes.” The 20-year-old Andy Warhol wrote fan letters to Capote, and when Warhol moved to New York […]
Hilton Als, “The Women”
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In Hilton Als’ collection White Girls, he writes several different essays that all touch on similar topics of race, gender, sexuality, family, and identity. What makes his essays so challenging, beyond the difficult topics, is the unconventional style of writing Als uses, which is similar to stream-of-conciousness. Within this collection is the second essay “The Women.” In this […]