Lindsay Reckson

Articles

• Crying in Public

  JEROME, PATRON SAINT OF ASCETIC LIBRARIANS. Paula, patron saint of widows, the voiceless, and the codependent. Lawrence, patron saint of students and barbecues. Anthony, patron saint of masturbators, epileptics, and tortured French realists. Colin Dickey’s Afterlives of Saints: Stories ...

  Lindsay RecksonJun 19, 2012

• Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"

  IN STYLE IT TOOK THE SHAPE of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the interwar years. Tea and jellies, dancing and croquet, "lemon-ade" and clock golf: Octavia gave a Garden Party to all at the Centre, in the Garden ...

  Lindsay RecksonJan 12, 2012

  • History

  • Nonfiction