Framing Innocence

In 1945, Life magazine could print a frontal picture of a topless, six-year-old Natalie Wood. In the year 2000, loving mother Cynthia Stewart was prosecuted for snapping a candid shot of her eight-year-old daughter in the shower, intended solely for family viewing. Poet Lynn Powell smartly ponders this telling change in attitudes and laws.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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