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6 days ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Louis Bayard
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Sept. 2024.
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By opening with a heartfelt letter from Oscar Wilde to his wife Constance, Bayard (
Jackie & Me) sets the tone for this five-act production that follows the Wilde family leading up to and after Wilde’s imprisonment for his romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, known as Bosie.
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1 month ago | 
bookbrowse.com | Louis Bayard
Genius. Pure genius. Written by Louis Bayard, this is a novel about one extraordinarily scandalous event in the life of renowned playwright Oscar Wilde and the effect the intense public notoriety and scorn had on his wife and two sons. Not only is the story riveting, but the style is so creative in that it is written—exactly as you would expect a novel to be—but within the shadow of a stage play.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Louis Bayard
In my alternative Super Bowl, the whole football part would be dispensed with right away and we would go straight to the halftime show, which would feature not some overexposed musical celebrity surrounded by dancers and drum majorettes and slightly less exposed demi-celebrities, but singer-songwriter Neko Case.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
unionleader.com | Louis Bayard
”Cher, The Memoir, Part One,” by Cher. Publisher: Morrow. 432 pages. $36Back in the 1970s, I used to stare at Sonny and Cher whenever they popped up on my TV screen — mainly because, to my preadolescent eye, they didn’t add up. She was tall and sun-kissed and lanky, with a cascade of raven hair and an air of amused detachment. He was tiny, with gold chains and broad lapels and a walrus mustache and, oozing from every quarter, the need to please. If he’d had a tail, it would have been wagging.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Louis Bayard
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Louis Bayard
Back in the 1970s, I used to stare at Sonny and Cher whenever they popped up on my TV screen — mainly because, to my preadolescent eye, they didn’t add up. She was tall and sun-kissed and lanky, with a cascade of raven hair and an air of amused detachment. He was tiny, with gold chains and broad lapels and a walrus mustache and, oozing from every quarter, the need to please. If he’d had a tail, it would have been wagging. She sang, and he mostly didn’t. He grinned, and she mostly didn’t.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Louis Bayard
Impressive performances from a stellar cast transform this "Novel in Five Acts" into an absorbing listening experience. Focusing less on Oscar Wilde's affairs and gross indecency trial, Bayard's look behind the scenes probes their damaging psychological effects on Wilde's wife and young sons. Elisabeth Rodgers is simply amazing as Oscar's wife, Constance, suddenly realizes what's been going on for years. Rodgers underplays her pain, allowing her strength to shine.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Louis Bayard
In retrospect, Maggie Smith's brilliant, high-wire career can be seen as a protest against celebrity. As an actor, Smith, who died on Friday at 89, favored characters into which she could disappear, and the rare interviews she agreed to were awkward, unrevealing, sometimes deliberately uningratiating. In a 2013 "60 Minutes" profile, she seems almost physically racked by the journalist's curiosity.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Louis Bayard
Thirty years ago, I appeared on Oprah's television show to discuss the memoir I had published about my marriage, which ended in widowhood "due to complications of AIDS." A few weeks before the taping, the producer called to see if I could help find other guests: other women who, like me, had married gay men. Actually, I couldn't think of any. My story was not a common one, or if it was, it wasn't openly discussed.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Jesmyn Ward |Louis Bayard |Leonard Pitts Jr. |Chris Bohjalian
Photo Collage: AARP; (Source: Scribner (2); Agate Publishing; Little, Brown and Company; Random House Trade Paperbacks; Getty Images (2)) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The drama and conflict of the World War II era have inspired so many great novels — from Atonement and The English Patient to The Book Thief and All The Light We Cannot See.
