{"id":145984,"date":"2019-04-12T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=145984"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:02:31","slug":"review-wild-nights-with-emily-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=145984","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Wild Nights with Emily<\/i> (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/large_eJmpDI5eh8DPbS4iaO8BDd3zPuQ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/large_eJmpDI5eh8DPbS4iaO8BDd3zPuQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/large_eJmpDI5eh8DPbS4iaO8BDd3zPuQ.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/large_eJmpDI5eh8DPbS4iaO8BDd3zPuQ-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/large_eJmpDI5eh8DPbS4iaO8BDd3zPuQ-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/large_eJmpDI5eh8DPbS4iaO8BDd3zPuQ-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI absolutely loved Madeleine Olnek&#8217;s <i>Wild Nights with Emily<\/i>, starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson, Susan Zeigler as the famous (and <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.emilydickinson.org\/mutilation\/mintro.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">famously erased<\/a>) &#8220;Sue&#8221; of Dickinson&#8217;s poems, and Amy Seimetz (whom I just met last fall when we were both jurors at Indie Memphis) as Mabel Todd, Dickinson&#8217;s first publisher and editor, and the crafter of the posthumous myth of Emily as a &#8220;spinster-recluse&#8221;. It&#8217;s fantastic. Very very funny but also thought-provoking, with a gut punch of a final scene (and final sound effect). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/wild-nights-with-emily-2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed <i>Wild Nights with Emily<\/i> for Rogerebert.com.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely loved Madeleine Olnek&#8217;s Wild Nights with Emily, starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson, Susan Zeigler as the famous (and famously erased) &#8220;Sue&#8221; of Dickinson&#8217;s poems, and Amy Seimetz (whom I just met last fall when we were both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=145984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2550,2544,166,160,2668,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147866,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145984\/revisions\/147866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}