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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

Susanna Moore’s memoir, Miss Aluminum (2020), takes its title from a trade show at the New York Coliseum in the late 1960s, where a 20 year old Moore, wearing a silver dress, silver stockings, and silver high heels, carrying a silver trident made out of cardboard tubes wrapped in tinfoil and pasted with silver glitter, handed out brochures advertising the benefits of aluminium masts and hulls After the trade show, she goes to a dinner, still silver from head to toe: ‘The men on either side of me, both in blue yachting blazers with crests on the pockets, were polite but not particularly thrilled to be sitting next to a dazed twenty year old girl with streaks of glitter on her face’    Moore’s memoir is about what it was like to be that dazed twenty year old girl, beautiful and brittle, whose glittering outer shell did a mostly adequate job of obscuring the messy reality of her childhood and adolescence The oldest of five children, Moore grew up rich and happy-ish in Hawaii, with a troubled, glamorous mother and a distantly benevolent physician father The relative peace of her childhood ended when she was 12, with the abruptly shocking death of her mother and her father’s hasty remarriage to a vicious, wealthy woman with a child of her own   Moore ran away from Hawaii and her stepmother as soon as she was able She became a successful model and then a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, attended dinner parties with Audrey Hepburn and went on holiday with Joan Didion She also became a celebrated writer, the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction, all of them written with an elegance and a lucid precision that seems to sit almost at odds with the expansive messiness of her themes Her first three novels – My Old Sweetheart (1982), The Whiteness of Bones (1989) and Sleeping Beauties (1993) –  are set in the Hawaii that Moore grew up in, with protagonists whose backgrounds have a lot in common with her childhood and adolescence In the Cut

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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Interview

May 2011

Interview with Alison Klayman

Shepherd Laughlin

Interview

May 2011

Until his arrest in Beijing on 3 April as he boarded a plane to Hong Kong, Ai Weiwei was...

poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester & Drones

Ned Denny

poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester   Each bared morning is a swell time to die, Leaving the town’s ornate maze for the level...

poetry

October 2012

Saint Anthony the Hermit Tortured by Devils

Stephen Devereux

poetry

October 2012

  Sassetta has him feeling no pain, comfortable even, Yet stiffly dignified at an odd angle like the statue...

 

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