Articles by Rhian Sasseen
March 26, 2013
The Savage Memories 1
“In fact, I think Plath has turned out to be a much better poet than Hughes ever was. Of course he won all the prizes, and his name is on the stones in Poet’s Corner and OK, he’s pretty good, but not that good, whereas she gets better and better.” Granta interviews the critic Al [...]
March 26, 2013
In Defense of First Novels 0
What’s it like to have Jacques Barzun edit your first novel? Besides terrifying, of course.
March 26, 2013
The Importance of Being Oscar 0
A new Oscar Wilde letter has been discovered, in which he advises a Mr. Morgan to “make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.”
March 26, 2013
Sterling Cooper Draper Time 0
“According to the biography, Hadden designed the fact-checking system with the thought that putting a male writer and a female researcher together in a quasi-adversarial situation would create a sexual dynamic that could lend energy to the process.” Calvin Trillin’s memories of the Time offices in the early 1960s are at times more Mad Men [...]
March 20, 2013
Liars and Cheats 0
What happens when a Kickstarter campaign turns out to be a swindle?
March 20, 2013
The Internet Is For 0
“Internet-centrism, then, treats ‘the Internet’ as an object that acts on society from outside, rather than a technological form that emerges from within a particular social and political situation.” The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Evgeny Morozov’s latest critique of the digital age, To Save Everything, Click Here.