V.S. Wetlaufer

Poet

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thetinhouse: Misfit COMING SOON Melding facts with imagination, Misfit is centered around the last weekend of Marilyn Monroe’s life, which, wanting to get away from the stress of a lawsuit filed against her by Twentieth Century Fox, she spent at Frank Sinatra’s resort, the Cal Neva Lodge, in Lake Tahoe. Using this weekend as a springboard, the novel explores moments throughout Monroe’s career when, faced with various opportunities, she altered her persona—from her days as a child, to her marriages with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, to her studies with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and, finally, to her role in the film Miller wrote for her, The Misfits.

thetinhouse:

Misfit COMING SOON

Melding facts with imagination, Misfit is centered around the last weekend of Marilyn Monroe’s life, which, wanting to get away from the stress of a lawsuit filed against her by Twentieth Century Fox, she spent at Frank Sinatra’s resort, the Cal Neva Lodge, in Lake Tahoe. Using this weekend as a springboard, the novel explores moments throughout Monroe’s career when, faced with various opportunities, she altered her persona—from her days as a child, to her marriages with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, to her studies with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and, finally, to her role in the film Miller wrote for her, The Misfits.

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mythologyofblue: What I put into words is no longer my possession. -Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson Image: Doug Beube, Altered Book from the series, Reunification: The Grand Design, 1996 [quote adapted from asfaltics]

mythologyofblue:

What I put into words is no longer my possession.

-Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson

Image: Doug Beube, Altered Book from the series, Reunification: The Grand Design, 1996

[quote adapted from asfaltics]