Stoner Alison Espach Martha may have left the

Martha may have left the cult

Bunny doesn't need any help

and the magic fights back

"1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to be Salome

Hattie Coleman dreams only of making it through the festive season

Stoner Alison Espach Martha may have left theWilliam Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied;