“I’m just a writer. Malamud’s an author.”: The Golden Girls and Banned Books Week

Picture it: Houston, 2025. A mother and her young daughter walk into the doctor's office one afternoon. In the waiting area is a little free library built to look like a red British telephone box. As they scan the shelves, the mother sees a book, well-known to her and once quite controversial but now almost …

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Fashion As Tension In Dorothy’s New Friend

The "Dorothy's New Friend" episode of season 3 is one of the most infamous of the series because it features a legitimate villain: Barbara Thorndyke! Yes, there are some other bad guys here and there throughout the series (The Cheeseman, anyone?), but Barbara Thorndyke for sure takes the cake (or the George Bernard Slaw, as …

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