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ellenkushner ([personal profile] ellenkushner) wrote2009-03-09 10:27 pm
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clippings

Gay couples trying to marry in China, while dad goes PFLAG.

A guy is writing & posting a song for every chapter in Moby Dick.

Possible new portrait of Shakespeare identified!!!!! (thanks, [livejournal.com profile] krismcd59!)

Aging Lesbian Separatists seek younger members for "womyn only" community: "the younger generation has not had to go through what we went through . . . In 20 to 25 years, we could be extinct."

BEST FOR LAST:
Writers' rooms. (I always knew I loved Jane Gardam.)

[identity profile] ronin-kakuhito.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Separatist movements of all flavors always make me a little to a lot sad.

[identity profile] coffeeem.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
That lovely writing hut at the end of the garden reminds me of the House o' Quail.

[identity profile] ron-drummond.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
I surveyed a couple dozen news articles about the newly rediscovered Shakespeare portrait, looking for the best-quality copyable digital photograph of the painting, and found it here:

http://tinyurl.com/dlea7h

A great portrait! But what precisely, pray tell, does "Principum amicitias" mean?

[identity profile] ron-drummond.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh gosh, the writers' rooms link is wonderful! And since it leads to the Guardian, how can I resist posting a clipping of my own, from last week's Guardian, which quotes me!

http://tinyurl.com/c2zuoc

[identity profile] phoenix64.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
That Chinese news story is lovely.

Do you know, I've seen people insist that the lesbian separatists of the seventies were more of a myth than reality?

(Anonymous) 2009-03-10 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I thought I loved Jane Gardam when I first read BILGEWATER, many years ago. Then I re-read it as an adult, and was more than a little horrified at its vicious reflexive classism. (The handsome young man who our heroine idolizes as a young thing turns out to be the child of two *dentists* -- oh, what a lucky escape she had! Seriously, this is what the book is about.)

Which doesn't mean she can't have a great writing room.

Nancy Werlin