"The Wager," the story accepted by the on-line publication Tit-Elation, has won first prize in their "My Partner Doesn't Understand Me" contest!
Welcome to the world of the novel-in-blogress, BEYOND YOU & ME, by W. S. Cross. A journey of personal discovery about Cassie DiMarco, a 24 year-old Yale grad student's wife from Philadelphia. Based on a real journal recounting her adventures during the Sexual Revolution. To Yale, she's "nothing more than a secretary," yet this modern Cinderella awakens from her slumber to find happiness, thanks to the Women's Movement and her own remarkbable abilities.
About Me
- W. S. Cross
- Dedicated to the proposition that commercial publishing is a poor system for getting books in the hands of the people who want to read.
Useful Sites
Links to the World of this Novel
- Against the Grain (Joris-Karl Huysmans, complete text on-line)
- "Behind the Green Door"
- "Bright College Years" (Yale Glee Club)
- Clark's Dairy, New Haven, CT
- Deconstruction
- Deutsche Presse Agentur
- "Design for Living"
- Dorothy Thompson, journalist
- Dwight Woolsey statue (minus naked Cassie)
- Erté
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
- Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Complete text on-line)
- The Feminine Mystique (Chap. 1)
- The Feminine Mystique (Chap. 2)
- The Feminine Mystique (Chap. 5)
- Great Expectations (Complete text on-line)
- Grove Street Cemetery
- Heidegger's Greek quotations
- Heloise's Letters to Abelard (Complete text in English)
- Heloise's First Letter to Abelard (Complete text in Latin)
- Heraclitus the Obscure
- Hymnen an die Nacht (Novalis)
- Hymns to the Night (Novalis)
- Inspector Clouseau Fan Site
- "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
- Jacques Lacan
- Lines from Lubitsch films (including "Design for Living")
- Kate Millet interview
- Playboy centerfold Majken Haugedal
- "Monty Python & the Holy Grail" (complete script)
- Mory's
- Mory's (photo)
- Movies of 1975
- Music in 1975
- Philosophy in the Bedroom, The Marquis de Sade (Complete text on-line)
- Pirandello's "Right You Are! (If You Think You Are)"
- Photos of Downtown New Haven, CT (scroll down past the maps)
- Portait of a Marriage (Vita Sackvile-West)
- Sexual Politics (Chapter 2)
- Stiles College (where S. lives)
- Stover at Yale
- Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
- Tab (the diet soda)
- The Pure & the Impure (Colette)
- "Therese & Isabelle"
- The Second Sex (de Beauvoir)
- Toni Tennille (yes, that's right)
- Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
- "Waiting for Godot," Act 1 (complete text)
- "Waiting for Godot," Act 2
- Wuthering Heights (Complete text on-line)
- "Wuthering Heights" (the movie)
- "Yale School" of Literary Theory
- Yale's Sterling Library: Manuscripts & Archives
- Yale University On-Line Tour
- York Square Cinema (no Lubitsch)
- Zen & the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Complete text on-line)
