“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Annie Wyman
Annie Julia Wyman is a doctoral candidate in the Harvard English Department. She works on 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture with special interests in laughter and curiosity as well as representations of captivity and imprisonment. Her essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, the Threepenny Review, Triple Canopy, n+1, The Rumpus, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.
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Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Angilee Shah
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Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More