Four hours of Beatrix Potter, 10 hours of Marcel Proust, or 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes. How about every single word of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and George Eliot’s ...
Marcel Proust’s madeleine is the cliché cookie—a highbrow reference that’s penetrated pop culture. (Take the Sopranos episode in which Tony’s Proustian madeleine is a slice of cappicola.) The great ...
Marcel Proust wrote “the idea of popular art…if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous.” Locked far away from society in his cork-lined room (why cork? Why not? It blocked out useless sound ...