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LitStack Rec: Anna May Wong & We Were Liars

Published on : 30 November, 201730 November, 2017 Published by : Lauren Alwan

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Don’t be misled by the tabloid nature of the title. Hodges’ biography is a meticulously researched and carefully constructed account of one of early cinema’s most notable icons. You could be forgiven for not knowing the work of Anna May Wong, [….]

Litstack Recs: Anna May Wong & The Hatred of Poetry

Published on : 20 April, 201720 April, 2017 Published by : Lauren Alwan

On this day, August 19, in 1902, poet Ogden Nash was born in Rye, New York. His works, usually short in length and part poem/part pun, delighted audiences with their droll wit and gentle humor (such as “Candy is dandy/but liquor is quicker” and “The Lord in His wisdom made the fly/And then forgot to tell us why”). In 1949, he wrote verses to accompany the 14 movements in Camille Saint-Saëns’ humorous musical suite, “The Carnival of the Animals” and now the two are rarely performed separately. Nash died in 1971 in his beloved Baltimore; he was 66.

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