Sharp Monica
Monica SharpLiterary essays, cultural criticism, and dispatches from Florence.
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In the Shadow of Fine Art
Napoli, Ponte di Chiaia, Via Chiaia. Capodanno 2020. ©Monica Sharp
I read The House on Via Gemito with the Open Doors Book Club. The club is hosted by Alexandra Lawrence and Lauren Mouat, who is the editor and publisher of Open Doors Revie...
Reading Hemingway in Stresa
Stresa, Lago Maggiore. Photo by C1 Superstar.
Hemingway has been my near-constant literary companion since I was fourteen. Last week on Lago Maggiore, I remembered that parts of A Farewell to Arms take place in Stresa, so I pulled up an eb...
Dissecting the Zeitgeist of Yesteryear
Warning: this essay is full of spoilers, so if you intend to read the book, stop now.
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Opening Reactions
By page 17 of Yesteryear I already disl...
I Can't Blink: The 2005 BBC Bleak House and Charles Dance
© BBC 2005
I love Charles Dance in his role as Tulkinghorn. He simply smashes it. He’s magnetic.
The 2005 BBC production of Bleak House, a fifteen-part series written by Andrew Davies, directed by Justin Chadwick and Susanna White, cente...
A Brief History of the Proust Questionnaire
Photo by Alexander Zvir
The Proust Questionnaire didn’t actually start with Marcel Proust, though his name stuck. He would have loved that.
It began as a parlor game in nineteenth-century French salons where bored aristocrats and their co...
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Writer & editor: literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism. Published in Adamah Media, Mediterranean Poetry, Open Doors Review, Fiction on the Web, Impspired, others. Founding editor, Via Media Review. Florence, Italy. sharpmonica.com
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