Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.
Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
I have been intrigued by Catherine de Medici and the legends surrounding her for a long time.