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Coming soon: the audiobook
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Coming soon: the audiobook
November 25, 1945: a “very interesting” Sunday School talk by a Jewish girl about Jewish customs and beliefs. “She promised to take us to a Jewish Synagogue in the future. I had a beautiful time listening to her.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Making-of-Sylvia-Plath
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
November 25, 1945: a “very interesting” Sunday School talk by a Jewish girl about Jewish customs and beliefs. “She promised to take us to a Jewish Synagogue in the future. I had a beautiful time listening to her.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Making-of-Sylvia-Plath
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November 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
11/23/53: In a Favorite Story adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s play, The Browning Version, RC plays seemingly mean spirited schoolmaster, Crocker-Harris,” opposite a shrewish wife, Millie, performed with relish by Benita Hume introduced as not only RC’s wife but his “lady.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
11/23/53: In a Favorite Story adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s play, The Browning Version, RC plays seemingly mean spirited schoolmaster, Crocker-Harris,” opposite a shrewish wife, Millie, performed with relish by Benita Hume introduced as not only RC’s wife but his “lady.”
11/21/37: Jack Benny spoofs Lost Horizon. Chang: “We will journey to…the paradise where all is serene.” JB: “Gosh.” Chang: “The Garden Spot of the universe.” JB: “If you're a real estate man, I'll scream.” He prefers a weekend getaway. Shangri-La is too far to travel even in his imagination.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
11/21/37: Jack Benny spoofs Lost Horizon. Chang: “We will journey to…the paradise where all is serene.” JB: “Gosh.” Chang: “The Garden Spot of the universe.” JB: “If you're a real estate man, I'll scream.” He prefers a weekend getaway. Shangri-La is too far to travel even in his imagination.
November 20, 2014: “Long before ‘Birdman,’ Ronald Colman pushed the edges of acting and illusion in ‘A Double Life.’” (Susan King, Los Angeles Times). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
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November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
November 20, 2014: “Long before ‘Birdman,’ Ronald Colman pushed the edges of acting and illusion in ‘A Double Life.’” (Susan King, Los Angeles Times). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
all on sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...; just scroll down the page
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
all on sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...; just scroll down the page
November 18, 1944: Reworks the original script of Mildred Pierce. Does not respond to director Michael Curtiz’s detailed comments. brightlightsfilm.com/the-cinemati... on sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
The Cinematic Faulkner: Framing Hollywood - Bright Lights Film Journal
“The Cinematic Faulkner” includes excerpts from The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 1: The Past Is Never Dead 1897-1934 (March 2020) and Volume 2: This Alarming Paradox 1935-1962 (September 2020), wi...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
November 18, 1944: Reworks the original script of Mildred Pierce. Does not respond to director Michael Curtiz’s detailed comments. brightlightsfilm.com/the-cinemati... on sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
11/18/52: “You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Making-of-Sylvia-Plath; on sale
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
11/18/52: “You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Making-of-Sylvia-Plath; on sale
11/8/29: Film Weekly: changes in his craft: “In a talking picture, I might say very quietly, ‘I have some bad news for you.’ Such a procedure on the silent screen would be unintelligible, the line would be registered by facial expression and gesture.” www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
Amazon.com: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero eBook : Rollyson , Carl : Kindle Store
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November 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
11/8/29: Film Weekly: changes in his craft: “In a talking picture, I might say very quietly, ‘I have some bad news for you.’ Such a procedure on the silent screen would be unintelligible, the line would be registered by facial expression and gesture.” www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive every one, and still pass on.—Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive every one, and still pass on.—Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive every one, and still pass on.—Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive every one, and still pass on.—Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
November 15, 1956: “much better day,” calls Dr. Krook, plows into Hume, writes jingles for New Yorker, reads new issue of The Nation with Ted’s poem “Wind” in it, soup at Alexandra house, “argument & home OK”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-2; on sale
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
November 15, 1956: “much better day,” calls Dr. Krook, plows into Hume, writes jingles for New Yorker, reads new issue of The Nation with Ted’s poem “Wind” in it, soup at Alexandra house, “argument & home OK”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-2; on sale
11/15/36:Hartford Courant dismisses Absalom, Absalom! as a “wearying welter of degeneracy and extravagant sordidness.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; the newspaper would have been even more upset with the screenplay, discussed here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...; both books on sale
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
www.upress.state.ms.us
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
11/15/36:Hartford Courant dismisses Absalom, Absalom! as a “wearying welter of degeneracy and extravagant sordidness.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; the newspaper would have been even more upset with the screenplay, discussed here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...; both books on sale
30 second Book trailer: youtu.be/0TXiStzlXaI?...
Confessions of a Serial Biographer
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November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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November 13-December 12, 1944: Assigned to Mildred Pierce. On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; www.amazon.com/Life-William...
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
www.upress.state.ms.us
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
November 13-December 12, 1944: Assigned to Mildred Pierce. On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; www.amazon.com/Life-William...
11/13/49: “As of today I have decided to keep a diary again…Somehow I have to keep and hold the rapture of being seventeen…I feel infinitely sad at the thought of all this time melting farther and father away from me as I grow older.” On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
The Making of Sylvia Plath
Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
11/13/49: “As of today I have decided to keep a diary again…Somehow I have to keep and hold the rapture of being seventeen…I feel infinitely sad at the thought of all this time melting farther and father away from me as I grow older.” On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
I hope you can enroll
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I hope you can enroll
Just published: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act
Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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11/12/44: Sleeps late, misses Sunday School, cuts out paper dolls, plays piano, does homework, listens to The Great Gildersleeve, before bed looks over answers on the English colonies assigned for Social Studies class. Website sale on all my UPM titles: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1
Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
11/12/44: Sleeps late, misses Sunday School, cuts out paper dolls, plays piano, does homework, listens to The Great Gildersleeve, before bed looks over answers on the English colonies assigned for Social Studies class. Website sale on all my UPM titles: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
11/12/ 21: Describes garret, 4 flights up, close to Central Park, prefers the Village, having “fine time” working in the bookshop, visiting the Metropolitan Museum, riding 5th Avenue bus, charms women customers, with“elegant southern accent.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will... website sale
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
www.upress.state.ms.us
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
11/12/ 21: Describes garret, 4 flights up, close to Central Park, prefers the Village, having “fine time” working in the bookshop, visiting the Metropolitan Museum, riding 5th Avenue bus, charms women customers, with“elegant southern accent.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will... website sale
In case you missed it: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
Faulkner and Plath Go to a Play
The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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