Senior Portfolio Workshop 2017

In this short essay, Hilton Als talks about the transformation of Michael Jackson from the start of his career to his end. Als comments about sexuality and identity through the life of Michael Jackson, two topics that are part of Jackson’s identity throughout his life. In this case, he presents Jackson as a metaphor for […]

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This essay can be read as a ‘biography’ and half an analysis of some portions of Flannery O’Connor’s of her life and of her work. In the essay, Hilton Als perceives O’Connor as an intelligent, sophisticated, fickle, but ultimately complex woman who writes works relying on her religious viewpoint, the place in which she lives […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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