patricia highsmith, animal lover

'The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder '

I just bought this for a friend.

Btw, 'Small g' was pretty good.

plein soleil is one of the most graceful book-to-film adaptations that i've seen, i think. dickie greenleaf's ambiguous relationship to marge in the book (mirroring tom's platonic relationship with cleo in ny) would be almost impossible to realize on film. and the way tom orchestrates marge's acceptance of dickie's disappearance in the movie is better and more plausible than the book

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sad poll :-(

i voted for black house fwiw. just odd and haunting.

where should i start with her?

'the talented mr. ripley' is so so good

only read five of these, the ripley one about art forgery (under ground?) is great

How'd I miss this? Must've been the title.

tremor of forgery is also amazing.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/20/little-tales-of-misogyny-by-patricia-highsmith-review

Reissue - looks like a winner.

would've voted The Cry of the Owl. best of the later novels is Found In The Street.

is Found in the Street worth it?

Ripley's game -movie- is wtf to terrible

But funny

Wenders' The American Friend is a good adaptation of it though.

So I read

Human hearted

Surprised a thread on Highsmith and animals had no mention, until now, of her relationship with snails

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0IGMy2X0AQlwkR.jpg

Not animal related, but quite liked this extract from Heather Chasen's obituary last year in the Times ( "Eccentric, impecunious actress who had a colourful array of lovers and appeared in The Navy Lark, Crossroads and The Mousetrap"):

Another famous lover was Patricia Highsmith, the American novelist. They first met, according to Highsmith’s biographer Andrew Wilson, in about 1963. Interviewed for his book Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Chasen said that she had visited Highsmith’s home in France and the writer had plied her with booze and chased her around the house until she succumbed to her advances. They never lived together and the relationship soured after another visit to France by Chasen and a subsequent partner. Highsmith stood at the end of the bed and took a flying leap, landing between Chasen and her girlfriend. There ensued, said Chasen, “a terrible row”. However, before Highsmith’s death in 1995, the two were friends again and Highsmith gave Chasen signed copies of all her books.

I'm currently reading "Strangers on A Train". Having seen the movie before, I thought I knew what to expect, but it turns out the plot of the movie is only very loosely based on the book, which is much darker.

Extract from the soon-to-be-published diaries:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/a-portrait-of-the-writer-as-a-young-woman?fbclid=IwAR1lQG_m3eXL1WKKN4JqGpGuAFqJYGSxqTaYxA6_rw9HNvp__h7vutuJogk

Finally a full trailer for this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ri2biYLeaI

And we're live:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81678765

Oooh, hope this is good

I think the B&W is the dealbreaker for my partner, she could maaaybe take the super slow burn, but not without getting to see Italy in color.

I’ve just watched 6 episodes back to back, and I rarely binge anything. It’s already been filmed in color twice before so I have no problem with the b&w, it’s a different way to approach the story. It looks gorgeous (probably with quite a bit of cgi/ai assistance, as noted in another thread.) I do think Andrew Scott is too old for the role of Tom, but he’s excellent in it nonetheless. I’m super into this.

https://yalereview.org/article/working-for-patricia-highsmith

Really enjoyable account from someone who worked as Highsmith's assistant for the last few months of her life.

I concur with Highsmith that Tremor of Forgery is her best novel. Or up there with the first Ripley, in any case.

I enjoyed the graphic novel about her life - Flung Out of Space - covering the period just before she became a full-time writer and sold Strangers on a Train, and when she was undergoing therapy/conversion therapy...Beautifully illustrated, and well worth acquiring the physical version of the book.

that's an amazing essay

When she finally emerged from her room for dinner that first night, I followed her into the kitchen. She boiled water in a pot and added a bouillon cube. She asked me if I wanted supper, and I nodded, so she added another cube. That was dinner.

lol

I liked The Boy Who Followed Ripley: Ripley is so tired of the duties of being himself, what with yet another seeker of he painter turning up, and this damn boy who wants to be Ripley---time to go to New Year's Eve in Germany, and cue "Satellite of Love"---