Tag Archives: Erica Jong

streaming the villa borghese

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

When you first start reading Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, it is easy to reach the verdict it was written during a series of lengthy drinking bouts. Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged a.e. housman, alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, ben grauer, Chales Bukowski, Erica Jong, Eve McClure, Henry Miller, Henry Miller tropic of cancer, Jack Kerouac, kathy acker, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

teenage wasteland: alpha female

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

The degree to which children harbor seriously violent fantasies is well known for some time. From Golding’s Lord of the Flies, to Freud, to Heinrich Hoffman to everyday experience among children, their inability in many cases to sublimate the kill … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alizia gur, Barbara Kay, catherine cogswell, Charles Baudelaire, emily white, Erica Jong, Lori Prince, margaret bourke-white, martine beswick, meryl streep the iron lady, miriam kaufman, phyllis chester, rachel simmons, ray corrado, reena virk, reena virk murder, rosalind wiseman, sibylle artz, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, William Golding | Leave a comment

guilt and forgiveness: “i” for you “thou” for me…

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Dave

…and a bell jar in between.Innocence. Does it really exist? Or is it just a virtual good to be bartered with Faustus as another bad deal. Contextually, it is more about the ways individuals manufacture or construct a world of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Solomon, Elaine Showalter, Erica Jong, Felix Nussbaum, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Faithfull, Otto Plath, sylvia plath, sylvia plath daddy, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath | Leave a comment

ST. JUDY’S COMET: She Stood a Wreck on Error’s Shore

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

One seer pronounced her the victim of a deeply religious and spiritual nature perpetually at war with the flesh that overwhelmed it. As D.H. Lawrence said, ” it is hard to hear a new voice, as hard as it is … Continue reading →