Ms. Haskell also goes over the autobiographical correspondences between Margaret Mitchell and her two creations, Scarlett and Melanie, contrasting the author’s tomboy childhood and flapperesque youth with the ladylike gentility she assumed later in life; her fierce determination to become a writer and her fear of the social backlash the publication of her novel might set off.

When you are in a dead zone, most of your call drops or your phone doesn't work at all.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

The clay baked in the sun.