By: Eleanor Jackson,
on 3/3/2016
In France today, pork has become political. A series of conservative mayors have in recent months deliberately withdrawn the pork-free option from school lunch menus. Advocates of the policy claim to be the true defenders of laïcité, the French secular principle that demands neutrality towards religion in public space.
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By: Connie Ngo,
on 7/6/2015
The tragic story of Madame Bovary has been told and retold in a number of adaptations since the text's original publication in 1856 in serial form. But what differences from the text should we expect in the film adaptation? Will there be any astounding plot points left out or added to the mix?
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 3/16/2015
Did you know that Truman Capote had a sharp tongue? The team at AussieWriter.com has created an infographic that shine the spotlight on “Famous Writers’ Insults.”
The image features quotes from The Invisible Man author H. G. Wells, Madame Bovary author Gustave Flaubert, and The Sun Also Rises author Ernest Hemingway. We’ve embedded the full infographic below for you to explore further—what do you think? (via The Digital Reader)
By: Maryann Yin,
on 2/3/2015
An official trailer has been unveiled for a film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. The video embedded above offers glimpses of Paul Giamatti as Monsieur Homais, Ezra Miller as Leon Dupuis, and Mia Wasikowska as the titular protagonist.
According to Digital Spy, the story “centres around a young doctor’s wife who finds herself dissatisfied with her life in provincial France.” Click here to download a free eBook edition of Flaubert’s 1857 novel. (via POPSUGAR)
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By: Tom Rachman,
on 6/2/2014
Naming a novel is painstaking, agonizing, delicate. But does the title matter? It certainly feels consequential to the author. After several years' battle with your laptop keyboard, after 100,000 words placed so deliberately, you must distill everything into a phrase brief enough to run down the spine of a book. Should it be descriptive? Perhaps [...]
By: Dianna Dilworth,
on 3/12/2013
The iconic actress Marilyn Monroe may have played the role of a ditzy blonde in many films, but she was actually quite the bookworm whose reading preferences included books by James Joyce and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Open Culture has more: “Once married to playwright Arthur Miller, Monroe stocked about 400 books on her shelves, many of which were later catalogued and auctioned off by Christie’s in New York City.”
Library Thing has made a list of 261 titles that were a part of Monroe’s personal library. Books on the list include: Out Of My Later Years by Albert Einstein; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; as well as poetry collections from Robert Frost, John Milton, and Edgar Allen Poe, among others. (Via Gothamist).
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