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Fascinating People- Vachel Lindsay’s Germ Theory November 17, 2009Vachel Lindsay’s Germ Theory by Lorette C. Luzajic It’s hard to say whether hip-hop mavericks like Eminem or Biggie Smalls ever heard of Vachel Lindsay, but this peculiar and passionate poet foreshadowed hip-hop, spoken word, slam and dub poetry. He told his mentor Yeats that he was hoping to bring ancient Greek musical qualities like singing and [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- goodbye, Billie Jean: the meaning of Michael Jackson November 13, 2009goodbye, Billie Jean: the meaning of Michael Jackson fifty-one writers, curated by Lorette C. Luzajic Handymaiden Editions, 2009 316 pages $27.95 (shipping approx. $6 to Canada, $9 to U.S.) to order, pay with paypal.com- direct funds to thegirlcanwrite@hotmail.com- include your mailing address and note that you want MJ book! or contact Lorette at thegirlcanw […]Lorette C. Luzajic
- Battle of the Alamo: Inside Pastor Tony’s Twisted World November 12, 2009Battle of the Alamo: Inside Pastor Tony’s Twisted World by Lorette C. Luzajic The self-professed “strongest fundamentalist Christian in the world” looks more like Disco Stu than your average evangelist. At least, he used to. Gone are the rhinestone jackets and the pimp hairdo, the stardust and the glitter. The past 45-yrs of court cases, prison time, [...] […]Lorette C. Luzajic
- The Silver Stories of Caroline Bacher Goldsmith November 9, 2009The Silver Stories of Caroline Bacher by Lorette C. Luzajic When Caroline tells me she is moving away from the city, I can’t help but picture an old mansion shrouded by twilight and mist, or a crumbling castle in the moors. Maybe it’s the way she floats in red velvet around the room, pale and luminous and [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- The Orchid Dancer: Cora Pearl, 1835-1886 November 7, 2009The Orchid Dancer: Cora Pearl, 1835-1886 by Lorette C. Luzajic The Emma Crouch story begins and ends in lonely anonymity, but in between, she was Cora Pearl, the world’s most spectacular courtesan. The cockney peasant milliner rose to the pinnacle of France’s 19th century demimonde to become the Queen of Paris. Emma was born in London, England, [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- Dying for Attention: the Strange Story of Christine Chubbuck October 21, 2009Dying for Attention: the Strange Story of Christine Chubbuck by Lorette C. Luzajic “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living colour, you are going to see another first — attempted suicide.” Anyone whose ears pricked up during this segment of small-time Florida’s news back in 1974 was [. […]Lorette C. Luzajic
- sabbatical October 7, 2009Folks, I am still here, though I haven’t written a new installment for you in a shocking amount of time. Do stay tuned because this collection of fascinating lives will resume again with gusto. I have been concentrating most of my time the past several months on a huge project about a very fascinating man: [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- No Reservations: the Interior World of Joseph Cornell July 21, 2009No Reservations: the Interior World of Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell was the kind of fellow that no one noticed. He was quiet and unassuming, seemingly average in every way. Born in Nyack, New York at the turn of last century, the shyest man in America had no intention of becoming an artist at all. Rather, he [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- Falling Short of the Glory of God: Leo Tolstoy July 6, 2009No bookshelf is complete without those massive Russian tomes, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Many say Leo Tolstoy authored the greatest novels ever written. The size of these sweeping epics was rivaled only by the writer’s formidable beard. Each novel pondered [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- Speaking with the Tongues of Angels: Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 June 17, 2009Before Starbucks took over the world, I spent my youth in the kind of coffee shops that played Ella Fitzgerald, talking over the finer points of existential angst with my cohorts. Dostoevsky’s work, filled with all the big questions of God and madness and free will and exile, was pressing stuff. So pressing, indeed, that [...]Lorette C. Luzajic
- Vachel Lindsay’s Germ Theory November 17, 2009
