Albert LaFarge

How ‘Gay’ Became an Identity in Art

Alice Austen's stunning 1891 photo “The Darned Club” is showcased here as "a depiction of lesbian domesticity." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/a....
Read about Bonnie Yochelson's recent book on Austen at thelafargeagency.com/book/too-goo....

Book Tour with Bonnie Yochelson, author of "Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen" Email from Fordham University Press Register Today! BOOK EVENTS with Bonnie Yochelson       "A sensitive portrait of a prolific photographer."—Kirkus Reviews "Too Good to Get Married is an assiduous,

Bonnie Yochelson's book (long in the making) on photographer Alice Austen has arrived! Pub date is June 3, serendipitously during Pride Month. Here is a link to book events in June. Fall events in the works. More at www.bonnieyochelson.com, thelafargeagency.com/book/too-goo... ...

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Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen Learn about the extraordinary life of feminist icon Alice Austen.

Bonnie Yochelson will talk about her new book at the Museum of the City of New York on Saturday, June 7, 2025, 1 p.m.
www.mcny.org/event/too-go...; thelafargeagency.com/book/too-goo...; @museumofcityny.bsky.social

YouTube video by Cambridge University Library (the UL) Virtual opening of CUL’s Vanneck Merlin fragment

Magic. youtu.be/Gpl2jYZMI5c?... More at www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl... (reported in www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/europe/merlin-manuscript-cambridge.html?smid=url-share). Hope for more Sappho, Gilgamesh, Lucretius--who knows what else rare marvels lurk?

Dikē (pron DK)?; Themis? Btw Thetis (mother of Achilles) has a nice ring. Hekate/Hecate was greatly revered in early Greek society but has issues later. But a good dog name.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle Another Day at Work

Some nice reflections on #GeorgeVHiggins; I chuckled at "Nobody watches Hamlet and asks where Claudius bought the ear-poison." A half-hour audio pod (Dan and Mike's "Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics"; scroll down) promises deep thoughts on the wily, impish ways of GVH.
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"Cigars." A favorite (alongside Peter Boyle). youtu.be/BXPl_wr2QNw?...

Dementia’s next test: New Alzheimer’s diagnostics are coming Can they fix the bottlenecks in elder care?

From April 2024. cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

RIP 5 men who greatly impressed me: Tony Carleton (in photo), Boker Doyle (www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...), George Meszoly (www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...), Barclay Tittman (www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...), Ike Williams (provincetownindependent.org/featured/202...).

Hey, nice piece. I like Stella's comic timing. I chuckled, too, at Nim's being "sent to live with a human family in Manhattan." Not exactly the gulag. I mean, depends on the family. And not every chimp got Betty Buckley as a downstairs neighbor.

I cried many times. The comic awkwardness in the scene with Oprah is special. Thank you for bringing General Halt to life.