http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/01/happy-birthday-byron/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/01/happy-birthday-byron/comment-page-1/#comment-44272 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:30:58 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=12334#comment-44272 So, as long as we\’re making a weekend of it, you\’ll naturally want to watch GOTHIC, Ken Russell\’s somewhat overboiled tribute to Byron, Shelley, and Polidori on their 1816 Frankenstein weekend, and to read THE MONK, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, which actually SHOCKED Lord Byron and which should\’ve been made into a movie by now, NC-17 or not… By the way, I\’ve never been able to muddle through Ms. Shelley\’s supposed classic, and think high school kids should be forced to read THE MONK instead, so there.

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