A Fate Worse Than Gravity: A Conversation with Ellen O’Connell Whittet

IT IS ONLY IN the second half of Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s poignant and exquisite memoir about ballet (and other causes of female pain), What You Become in Flight, that it dawns on the reader — or on this reader, at least — that she’s invoking the word “flight” in two senses: the balletic sense of […] The post A Fate Worse Than Gravity: A Conversation with Ellen O’Connell Whittet appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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Take an early peek at Hulu’s adaptation of Conversations With Friends.

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Trapeze wins four-way auction for Arthanayake’s conversation guide

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Register Today for AAPI Communities in Conversation #2, Featuring Gina Apostol

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A Novel of Old Shanghai: In Conversation with Weina Dai Randel, by Susan Blumberg-Kason

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How mountains, rivers and seas shape the fates of nations

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