Stephin Merritt reads fifth-grade fave Ethan Frome on his birthday every year, because “it expresses everything about how horrible New England is.” And hey, at only 99 pages, you can read its entire “if you want more out of your horrible existence, you’re pretty much screwed” tale and still have time for cake and ice cream! [SF Weekly]
February 27th, 2008 // 10 Comments
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The main thing I remember about Ethan Frome is the broken pickle dish.
I never read Ethan Frome. Now, I feel like I was missing out on something … and it’s another book to add to my neverending list of books I’ve never read. Dammit.
@scarletvirtue: Most Wharton is worthwhile, although House of Mirth shits alllllllll over Ethan Frome from a vast height.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, READ THIS BOOK. Unless you’re having trouble sleeping or you gave up on physical self-mutilation but still need to get your fix. If you hate yourself, by all means, read this.
And a big fuck you to a certain his toupee-wearing English teacher and the William H. Hall High School English Dept. for putting this literary water torture in the curriculum.
Sorry. Had to get that off my chest.
@encyclopediablack: I salute you. That’s some amazing bile.
(I enjoy Wharton but never read this. I think we got Camus instead. “Hey have you heard this song by the Cure? It’s TOTALLY about this!”)
@encyclopediablack: They must have forwarded that memo to the Maloney High School English department. Something about enhanced interrogation techniques in the Connecticut school systems…
Holy crap. I wish I could have gotten a quote from that article before printed the posters for the marathon Ethan Frome reading I’m having next month.
printing, not printed. I got so excited I forgot the difference between the past tense and the, uh, gerund?
Only vaguely related: Is that Stephin Merritt singing and dancing in that newish gum commercial?
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