The postscript for director Madeleine Olnek’s new biopic Wild Nights with Emily states: “Notions persist to this day of Emily Dickinson as a spinster old maid who was afraid to leave her room or ...

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“Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds” by Lyndall Gordon (Viking, 491 pgs., $32.95) Why can’t we leave Emily Dickinson alone? Since her death in 1886, the iconic American ...

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