“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
Dylan J. Montanari
Dylan J. Montanari is a graduate student at Stanford University. He is pursuing a dual PhD in French & Italian literature and is particularly interested in decadence and aestheticism. He has published translations in Chicago Review and a review in Philosophy & Literature. At Stanford, he co-coordinates the Philosophy and Literature Initiative. Before moving to California, he studied comparative literature at the University of Chicago.
Genres
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More