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Carly Taylor

Carly Taylor '22 is a Managing Editor of Arts & Life. She studies comparative literature and creative writing. On campus, you can find her organizing concerts and practicing martial arts. Contact her at ctaylor ‘at’ stanforddaily.com.
Arts & Life
Screenshot of a Zoom room with 2 participants--Peter Mann and interviewer Carly Taylor

Q&A: Stanford history lecturer Peter Mann is an undercover novelist

Carly Taylor
  •  
Feb. 13, 2022
Arts & Life
poet Aracelis Girmay reading on Zoom

Poet Aracelis Girmay on grief, Black motherhood and marrow language

Carly Taylor
  •  
April 25, 2021
right: cover of "The Scapegoat," with a crow carrying a cross flying above a church; left: headshot of author Sarah Davis

Sara Davis’ ‘The Scapegoat’: A Lynchian mystery set at Stanford

Carly Taylor
  •  
Feb. 25, 2021
headshot of Angie Thomas, author of "The Hate U Give"

Recommended reads for Black History Month

Carly Taylor, Kyla Figueroa, Lily Nilipour, Kirsten Mettler, Richard Coca and Valerie Trapp
  •  
Feb. 23, 2021
The Grind
Arts & Life editor Carly Taylor describes how reading Proust helped her make sense of her own olfactory distortion after recovering from COVID-19. (Photo: Pexels)

Smell, involuntary memory and COVID-19

Carly Taylor
  •  
Feb. 3, 2021
Arts & Life
various drawings of houses

The poetics of quarantined space: Revisiting Bachelard

Carly Taylor
  •  
Jan. 17, 2021
outdoor photo of the author ottessa moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh’s unstoppable imagination in ‘Death in Her Hands’

Carly Taylor
  •  
Jan. 11, 2021
Arts & Life
Depiction of Octavia Butler's story 'Bloodchild' showing an unidentifiable insect with many legs emerging from a boy with a large whole through his chest

Spooky reads for Halloween in quarantine

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Ellie Wong, Valerie Trapp, Emma Kexin Wang, Shana E. Hadi, Cindy Xin and Carly Taylor
  •  
Oct. 29, 2020
Arts & Life
A glimpse into the Art of Science 2020 3D VR gallery walkthrough. (Screenshot from Art of Science)

Creative reencounters with research in Art of Science 2020 Exhibition

Carly Taylor
  •  
June 11, 2020
Reads
Carly Taylor delivers a riveting prove into Ruchika Tomar's award-winning debut novel "A Prayer for Travelers." (Photo: Penguin Random House)

Craft and patience in ‘A Prayer for Travelers’

Carly Taylor
  •  
June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
VoCSS SCN Graphic

Voices of Canceled Stanford Shows: Producing a concert at the end of the world

Carly Taylor
  •  
May 8, 2020
Reads
Sanjana Friedman describes how Henry Miller's notoriously raunchy novel "Tropic of Cancer" has lost its effect on modern readers. (Photo: Obelisk Publishing)

Living artistically with ‘Tropic of Cancer’

Carly Taylor
  •  
May 1, 2020
Arts & Life
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of "You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine." She wrote the acclaimed novel in unusual locations, like a Wendy's restaurant (courtesy of Arturo Olmos).

On Alexandra Kleeman’s ‘You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine’

Carly Taylor
  •  
May 1, 2019
Arts & Life
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most bitter love stories ever written (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Reading between the lines for love

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Feb. 14, 2019
In "Call Me By Your Name," director Luca Guadagnino uses visuals, not voiceovers, to convey the characters' complex emotions (courtesy of Mongrel Media and Sony Pictures Classics).

What movies can do that books cannot

Carly Taylor
  •  
Feb. 1, 2019
Arts & Life
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" complicates genre conventions and conceptions of gender (courtesy of Flickr).

Reading for new beginnings

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens, Carly Taylor, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Jan. 28, 2019
Virginia Woolf is the author of "Mrs. Dalloway," first published in 1925 (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

The bearable heaviness of being: reflections on ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

Carly Taylor
  •  
Dec. 10, 2018
Arts & Life
This Thanksgiving, take time to check out these meaningful books (DELAWARE LIBRARIES/Flickr).

Reads of gratefulness

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Sofia Schlozman, Carly Taylor, Sarah Kim, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Nov. 15, 2018
Arts & Life
The Reads beat recommends some spine-chilling stories for Halloween (BRIAN HERZOG/Flickr).

Bewitching Halloween reads

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Sofia Schlozman, Olivia Manes, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Oct. 31, 2018
Rene Magritte's "Empire of Light" (courtesy of the Guggenheim Museum).

New modes of being: Reflections on Magritte and Sappho

Carly Taylor
  •  
Oct. 18, 2018
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