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Carrie Frye

Posted inNonfiction

Our Favorite Words Of 2016

by Carrie Frye January 12, 2017October 13, 2022

From akasha to kompromat, a guide to the words we learned in 2016.

Posted inBlog Post, Books, Nonfiction

The Cat’s Meat Man, From Dickens To Jack The Ripper

by Carrie Frye July 27, 2016October 19, 2022

Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. *** Harriet Hardiman was ‘a cat’s meat man.’ That is, she went out most days with a handcart full of chopped meat on skewers […]

Harriet the Spy
Posted inBlog Post, Fiction

The Notebooks of Harriet The Spy

by Carrie Frye July 18, 2016October 19, 2022

Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. *** A few months ago, my friend Maud was in town from New York, and one afternoon I met her and her stepdaughter at a […]

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Posted inBlog Post, Books, Nonfiction, Uncategorized

In the Library with Ta-Nehisi Coates

by Carrie Frye May 17, 2016October 19, 2022

Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. * * * When I was in college I was pretty good at gadding around (sorry to boast!), and spring was my very best […]

Posted inNonfiction

The Gothic Life and Times of Horace Walpole

by Longreads December 10, 2014October 19, 2022

Two-hundred and fifty years ago, Horace Walpole published ‘The Castle of Otranto,’ a strange, campy book that’s widely considered to be the first Gothic novel. In real life, Walpole’s family was beset by tragedy and his life’s obsession was a Gothic castle called Strawberry Hill.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

The Gothic Life and Times of Horace Walpole

by Longreads December 10, 2014October 19, 2022

Two-hundred and fifty years ago, Horace Walpole published ‘The Castle of Otranto,’ a strange, campy book that’s widely considered to be the first Gothic novel. In real life, Walpole’s family was beset by tragedy and his life’s obsession was a Gothic castle called Strawberry Hill.

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