January 17, 2003

Art History, Magic Tricks, Term Papers, and the Gores

Terry Castle,professor of English at Stanford University and author of

Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing (Routledge, 2002):

I'm mortified to say I have just devoured -- in a huge sickening bolus -- Patricia Cornwell's recent Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed. I read it not so much on account of Jack the Ripper but because I'm fascinated with Walter Sickert -- the brilliant British post-impressionist painter

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