Marilyn is featured twice in the December 2022 issue of UK nostalgia mag Yours Retro (#57, with Tony Curtis on … More
Category: Health and Fitness
The Private Side of Marilyn at Julien’s Auctions
Continuing my series of posts on the Icons and Idols event at Julien’s Auctions this Saturday, December 17, today I’m … More
America’s Favourite Cliché: Marilyn and the Myth of Norma Jeane
In an excellent article for The Atlantic, Sarah Churchwell (author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe) deconstructs the pernicious … More
‘Becoming Herself’: Finding Marilyn’s Feminine Power
The queer feminist academic Sophie Lewis has written a very personal tribute to Marilyn for the November issue of literary … More
Michel Schneider’s Last Words on Marilyn
Michel Schneider, author of Marilyn’s Last Sessions – a novel reimagining her relationship with psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson – died … More
‘To Love Bravely’: Finding Marilyn in Her Poetry
Writing for Vulture, Marya E. Gates argues that ‘Marilyn’s truth was in her poetry’ (as collected in the 2010 book, … More
Marilyn’s Last Sessions: A Graphic Novel
Marilyn’s Last Sessions – a novel reimagining her relationship with psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson – earned French author Michel Schneider … More
American Dreamers: Marilyn and Sylvia Plath
“Sylvia Plath was the Marilyn Monroe of modern literature,” Carl Rollyson wrote in American Isis, his biography of the poet. … More
Anne Hathaway Works Out With Marilyn
In a fitness-themed layout for Interview magazine, actress Anne Hathaway tries weightlifting, Marilyn-style – in jeans and a terry-cloth bikini … More
On This Day: Marilyn at Payne Whitney
On February 10, 1961, Marilyn was admitted to hospital in New York, as the world’s press reported a day later … More