All the Available Light

A Marilyn Monroe Reader

By: Yona Zeldis McDonough

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Paperback | 5 August 2002

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No star in any genre has affected the world as deeply or has lasted as long without fading as Marilyn Monroe. This thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of essays examines the undiminished incandescence of Marilyn Monroe -- the impact she has had on our culture, the evolution of her legend since her death, and what she tells us now about our lives and times -- and includes previously unpublished work from some of America's best writers, such as: Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Elliot Dark, Albert Mobilo, Marge Piercy, Lore Segal, Lisa Shea, and many more.
From her troubled family beginnings to the infamous $13 million auction held at Christie's in New York City, All the Available Light paints an unforgettable portrait of Marilyn as you've never seen her before.
This extremely rare cover photo was taken c. 1954, on the set of The Seven Year Itch.

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Molly Jong-Fast author of Normal Girl All the Available Light glistens with luminescent essays from many glowing greats. This anthology shines more light directly on the face of America's greatest star.
Natalia Ilyin author of Blonde Like Me: The Roots of the Blonde Myth in Our Culture All the Available Light does what no other book on Marilyn has been able to do: instead of plodding linearly through her facts and myth, pinning her identity under the lightbulb of interrogation, this rich group of essays produces a diffraction pattern, projects a three-dimensional image, delivers her to us like a hologram.
Patricia Kennealy Morrison author of Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison Sparkling and startling insights into the person and persona that both were Marilyn Monroe -- this collection reminds us all of what we too often forget: that under every lambent icon dwells a living, breathing, hurting, joyous human soul.

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Introduction	p. 1
Freeze Frame: Monroe as Icon	p. 7
Iconomania: Sex, Death, Photography, and the Myth of Marilyn Monroe	p. 10
Centerfold	p. 35
Some Like Her Hot: Marilyn and Sex	p. 45
Too Sexy, Sexy Too	p. 47
Scratching Tom Ewell's Itch	p. 53
Boot in the Face: Monroe as Victim	p. 61
The Woman Who Will Not Die	p. 63
Marilyn, We Hardly Knew You	p. 78
The "Love Goddess" Who Never Found Any Love	p. 83
Looking Good	p. 103
Golden Girl: Marilyn in Hollywood	p. 109
We Would Have Had to Invent Her	p. 113
Face Value	p. 120
Sexy and Her Sisters	p. 142
The Prince and the Showgirl	p. 150
Personal Geography: Marilyn in Culture	p. 165
French Kiss	p. 167
Marilyn at the Mikvah	p. 176
Two Daughters	p. 184
The Sum of the Parts: Marilyn Reconstructed	p. 195
Mother, Daughter, Siren, Lover: Marilyn in Song	p. 197
The Hunted	p. 202
Reliquary	p. 208
Chronology	p. 215
Notes	p. 221
About the Contributors	p. 224
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