Below is an ongoing collection of links to articles, exhibits, and books about Emily Dickinson and her home. Please let us know if you see more Dickinson in the News!
General Interest
- Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson (NPR, Fresh Air, July 6, 2010)
- Summer Events At The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts (History and Landmarks Travel Examiner, July 1, 2010)
- Emily Dickinson Examiner articles (ongoing)
- Bill Murray Reads Poetry to Construction Workers (Poet's House, Spring 2010)
- My Hero, the Outlaw of Amherst (New York Times, May 16, 2010)
Exhibits
- "Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Flowers," New York Botanical Garden, May 1- June 13, 2010.
- Emily Dickinson's White Dress (New York Botanical Garden's Plant Talk Blog, June 4, 2010)
- Garden Roots of Emily Dickinson's Poetry (PBS Newshour, June 9, 2010)
- She Spoke the Language of Flowers (Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2010)
- Emily Dickinson's Poetry Blooms at New York Botanical Garden Exhibit (The Washington Post, May 27, 2010)
- The Poet as Gardener and Tiger Lily (The New York Times, April 29, 2010)
Books and Book Reviews
- Helen Vendler, "Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries," Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Lyndall Gordon, "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds," New York: Viking, 2010.
- A different sort of Emily Dickinson, epileptic too, by Polly Longsworth (Philly.com, August 22, 2010)
- ‘WAS IT EPILEPSY? MISDIAGNOSING EMILY DICKINSON, Norbert Hirschhorn MD, Presented on the Panel, ‘Dickinson and the Self’, Saturday 7 August, The Emily Dickinson International Society Oxford International Conference (‘Were I Britain Born’), 6-8 August, 2010.
- Sweeping Up the Heart: The Secrets and Feuds That Made a Great American Poet (The Economist, August 5, 2010)
- Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson had Epilepsy (NPR, Fresh Air, July 6, 2010)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds (The Washington Times, June 25, 2010)
- At Long Last, Meet the Real Emily Dickinson (The Buffalo News, July 18, 2010)
- The Belle of Amherst? (Boston Globe, June 27, 2010)
- Ardor and the Abyss (The Nation, July 5, 2010)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns, By Lyndall Gordon (The Independent, February 19, 2010)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns (Financial Times, February 16, 2010)
- A bomb in her bosom: Emily Dickinson's secret life (The Guardian, February 13, 2010)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon: review VIRAGO, £20, 472?pp (Telegraph, January 31, 2010)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon: review (Telegraph, January 30, 2010)
- Jerome Charyn, "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel," New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010.
- Emily Dickinson's New Secret (Slate Magazine, June 28, 2010)
- 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' by Jerome Charyn: Imagining the inner world and yearnings of the belle of Amherst (Los Angeles Times, February 26, 2010)
- Ron Charles reviews "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (The Washington Post, February 24, 2010)
- Writing It Slant (The New Republic, February 23, 2010)
- 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' (The San Francisco Chronical, February 21, 2010)
- The Rose Did Caper on Her Cheek (The New York Times, February 16, 2010)
- Aife Murray, "Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language," New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2009.
- Daneen Wardrop, "Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing," New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2009.
