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Film Review: An Obscure But Fascinating Documentary on the Life of Edith Wharton

Artist/scholar Elizabeth Lennard has managed to evoke the breadth of Edith Wharton’s life and work in a relatively short and vivid film.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Berkshires, Culture Vulture, documentary, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Lennard, Helen Epstein, The Mount

Theater Feature: From Page to Stage — The Craft of Theatrical Adaptation, Part One

“A great novel makes for the best script an actor could imagine,” said actor Colin Firth recently, on accepting an award for his reading of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. Many theatergoers would agree.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: Catherine Taylor-Williams, Elaine Smith, stage adaptation, The Looking Glass, The Mount, Wharton Salon

Arts Feature: Celebrating The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in the Berkshires

The fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Edith Wharton, the Berkshires, The Mount

Theater News: Two by Wharton — “The Quicksand” and “The Looking Glass”

If you’ve been thinking of visiting The Mount, the sumptuous writer’s retreat Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires at the turn of the twentieth century, now is the time.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Fuse News, Theater Tagged: The Looking Glass, The Mount, The Quicksand, Wharton Salon

Fuse Flash: Postscript on Wordfest at The Mount

By Roberta Silman Although all the statistical material about the demography of Wordfest has yet to be compiled, the word is out that this newest event at The Mount was an amazing success. About 500 people attended events at the grounds of The Mount and nearby at Seven Hills (the fundraising dinner) over the weekend […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Fuse Flash, Lenox, MA, Roberta Silman, The Mount, Wordfest

Fuse Books: Edith Wharton’s The Mount Sponsors the First Annual Berkshire Wordfest

With the establishment of Wordfest, a celebration of writing in America with talks, interviews, panels, and book signings, The Mount seems to be coming into its own in ways that make it more alive than ever before. By Roberta Silman When we first built our home in the Berkshires in the early 70s, I remember […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, Edith Wharton, Garrison Keillor, Roberta Silman, the Berkshires, The Mount, Wordfest

Arts Feature: Two Grand Berkshire Cottages

By Helen Epstein When you’re sitting in a traffic jam on the Mass Pike or the Taconic Parkway it’s instructive to reflect that one hundred and fifty years ago, it often took less time to get to the Berkshires from Boston or New York City than it does today. The Berkshires were then a major […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured Tagged: Berkshire Cottages, Berkshires, Culture Vulture, Edith Wharton, J.P. Morgan, Lenox, Sarah Morgan, Stockbridge, The Cider House Rules, The Mount, Ventfort Hall

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