After Sappho sub/RELATIONSHIPS scorching modern gothic

scorching modern gothic

As Hussam and Wassim come to terms with the past

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves

and Jason Brown

After Sappho sub/RELATIONSHIPS scorching modern gothicBy: Selby Wynn Schwartz The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho, so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in