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*A pretty quiet week, as it goes. I had two job interviews on Wednesday (didn't get either, although I was the runner-up) and have a plane ticket book for the holidays. Going to spend them with a dear family friend in Cork, which will be fun because I've never been. Plus, she's an…

Completely agree. I've often wondered if the reason so many female writers from the 18th/19th/early 20th century were so acidic was because they never had a lot of privacy, along with being told by society to stay quiet and at the side of men.

The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train are her signature works. Deep Water is a great tale of domestic horror with a phenomenally creepy ending. The Price of Salt or Carol is Highsmith at her sweetest and most tender, certainly no less unsentimental.

It's a film I can rewatch again and again and it never fails to make me laugh and smile. It's probably the only dark comedy I can think of where the sourness and the sweetness go together harmoniously.

I'll never forget seeing a book review for an Elena Ferrante novel and it said, 'Imagine if Jane Austen got mean.'

I've been recommending her left and right. I'm almost finished with The Talented Mr. Ripley, and I adore it. Her prose can be a bit blunt, she creates characters with as much intelligence and depth as Edith Wharton or Dostoevsky, in narratives that move with the breeziness of a great beach read. Simply put, she's…

Funny enough, Stephen King called it his favorite. Interesting choice, certainly.

She's easily one of my favorite writers. I already have Edith's Diary and I can't wait for small g: A Summer Idyll to be rereleased in the UK this January.

Very good to know!

Does this mean we can expect a cover of 'Frankie Teardrop' at some point?

In a fairer world, I wish Go would have won the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing (among others).

Go is one of my absolute favorite comedies; I wish it received more honor when people talk about great films from the 90s.

Jane Austen often gets an unfair reputation for being solely a romance writer, but the real treat of her work is how methodically and hilariously she rips apart society with her pointed observations.

Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt certainly knew how to have fun.

The Age of Innocence, The Haunting of Hill House, and five Patricia Highsmith books (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, Deep Water, and Little Tales of Misogyny) all come to mind. They were great reads.

I read one where there is an 'a-ha' moment during some domestic fight and Lawrence's character slices her hand wringing out a mop filled with broken glass.

I approve, Mr. Grinch.

The rest did, because of the way they looked in a dress.

It would have helped with the GE this year.

THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS!