It may seem like years ago that Netflix dumped the fifteen episodes of Arrested Development's fourth season on us, but that momentous event occurred just fifteen weeks ago. Knowing that cannonballing the entire season on the day of release would be difficult to resist, yet also wanting to heed show creator Mitch Hurwitz's advice not to binge-watch them, Vulture commissioned Slaughterhouse 90210 curator Maris Kreizman to chug down the entire stash in a single sitting and The Wilder Life author Wendy McClure to watch them in the old-school manner of one episode per week. So, which writer watched it best? Below, the vitamin D-deprived Kreizman and "listless consumptive" McClure discuss the highs and lows of our grand Arrested Development viewing experiment.Maris Kreizman: Hi, Wendy! Are you finally through with your moderately paced summer of the Bluth family, round four? Did you have fun? I found season four of...
- 9/3/2013
- by Wendy McClure,Maris Kreizman
- Vulture
My only encounters with Little House on the Prairie are the reruns I occasionally watch, this website, which is excellent, and reading the awesome Confessions of a Prairie Bitch. Sadly, I never read a single Laura Ingalls Wilder book in my youth. Reading The Wilder Life made me wish I had set aside the Baby-Sitters Club for a minute to try something else.
The book has a simple premise. Wendy McClure rediscovers her old copy of Little House on the Prairie. She proceeds to reread the entire series, then takes steps to recreate the "Laura World" that she had experienced as a child. McClure does a ton of research on the people, history, and places. She learns how to churn butter and make bread starter. Eventually, after continued research, she plans a road trip to important Little House locations.
The entire book is entertaining. It makes me want to get some obsession of my own,...
The book has a simple premise. Wendy McClure rediscovers her old copy of Little House on the Prairie. She proceeds to reread the entire series, then takes steps to recreate the "Laura World" that she had experienced as a child. McClure does a ton of research on the people, history, and places. She learns how to churn butter and make bread starter. Eventually, after continued research, she plans a road trip to important Little House locations.
The entire book is entertaining. It makes me want to get some obsession of my own,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
A couple of weeks ago, I sent the following message to this year's Cannonballers:
Now that summer is here (yes, I know not technically, but as far as I'm concerned summer begins when June does), I am thinking that it would be good to have a theme for some of the Cbr posts this summer: Summer Reads. I don't know about you, but summer vacations-especially when I go to the beach-are when I have some of my best opportunities to finally make a dent in my reading list. And I often make a trip to the library before heading out on vacation. I'd like to be able to give the Pajibans a bunch of recommendations as they may be looking to add to their summer reading lists.
Of course to do this, I need your help. I would like you to send me links to any reviews you've written for...
Now that summer is here (yes, I know not technically, but as far as I'm concerned summer begins when June does), I am thinking that it would be good to have a theme for some of the Cbr posts this summer: Summer Reads. I don't know about you, but summer vacations-especially when I go to the beach-are when I have some of my best opportunities to finally make a dent in my reading list. And I often make a trip to the library before heading out on vacation. I'd like to be able to give the Pajibans a bunch of recommendations as they may be looking to add to their summer reading lists.
Of course to do this, I need your help. I would like you to send me links to any reviews you've written for...
- 6/27/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
Essayist and editor Wendy McClure has feelings about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House On The Prairie series that are almost as familiar as the books themselves. Like countless others, she became enthralled in childhood by what she terms “Laura World,” a place where life was hard but refreshingly clean. In Laura World, there were fascinating methodologies to learn if one wished to churn butter or install a door latch. Magic came from simple possessions like rag dolls and Christmas oranges. And the promise of a better house, a better life, was just westward over the horizon. As McClure learns ...
- 5/5/2011
- avclub.com
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