March 2012
3 posts
May Day
Picturesque background, ball gowns, liquor bottles strewn across the floor, men in uniform, crushing socialites and socialists, add together and stir with a the historical truth of the May Day Riots of 1919 and in about 100 pages you have the novella penned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novella is a thematic mash up of stagnation of a nation and a polarized society that precedes the “Jazz Age” of...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture...
Cereal, cigarettes, slight pillow talk, a VHS of the Real World and Lisa Loeb’s cat glasses lying on the bedside table next to a picture of Zack Morris, the ideal setting for a satirical portrayal of a society run by the cultural components that dictate what is important and what is not. A collection of essays ranging in various topics is at the heart of the novel depicting a brief time in...
Girl, Interrupted
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest depicts the life of a mental institution from the perspective of a man albeit fiction but nonetheless the only depiction until the groundbreaking memoir from Susanna Kaysen; this seminal memoir relaying actual occurrences of a mental health facility in the 1960s gave the masses a view of the harrowing world clouded with the stigma of mental illness from the...
