Now on YouTube–Surreal Noir by friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! In this episode she extensively discusses Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) and Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel. “Episode Two: Surreal portraiture—-Muse or artist? Can you fall in love with a picture? Can you fall in love with someone from […]
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
Summertime and the living is far from easy, but hopefully it can be easier with these summer fun time (and winter fun time, for our antipodean friends) reading suggestions including horror, fantasy, thrills, chills, adventure, mystery, crime and wisdom from the most advanced civilization on Earth. There are […]
Friend of the Gutter and Patricia Highsmith scholar Kate Laity has some thoughts about the new Netflix adaptation of Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and on Ripley himself. “I had equal parts of anticipation and dread for this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr Ripley especially […]
Hey, click through here to listen to the newest episode of Surreal Noir from friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! “Tonight’s episode dwells on Letty Lynton, which you may recall is a film, a novel by Marie Belloc Lownds and — gasp! — an early 20th century true […]
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity watches Emily Harris’ Carmilla (2019). Read her thoughts here. (And you can read the Gutter’s own Angela’s piece on Carmilla here).
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