SUSIE THEN REMOVED HER MASK/AND CAUSED A MIGHTY STIR: Just so everyone’s clear, 1. Here are some of my favorite posts by Helen Rittelmeyer. These posts in no way exhaust her awesomeness; they merely give you what Lady Holliday in The Great Muppet Caper would call “a soupcon–Marie, I don’t think we should chew gum!”

“Decadence, Christianity, And Oscar Wilde’s Conversion to Catholicism.” My own senior essay changed my life. If mine hadn’t, hers might’ve.

“Toward a Bioethics of Love”

In defense of shame (my post against; but you should read hers first)

A review of three books I read (in part) because she owned them.

All my posts tagged w/her name

2. Apparently Todd Seavey lived twenty-and-some years without ever meeting an agent provocateur until Helen. His naivete, while potentially endearing when played by Joseph Cotten, should in no way impair your reading of her actual work, which is much more Marlene Dietrich than Anne Hathaway.