Mabel Loomis Todd's "showgirl flair"

Mabel Loomis Todd, mistress of Emily's brother Austin Dickinson

While perpetuating some of the goofy myths about Emily Dickinson, the Seattle Times gushes over a new book cataloging the Dickinson family feuds:

With most biographies, death marks the end of the story; in Lyndall Gordon's mesmerizing "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds," a poet's death is like a rock tossed into a pond, leaving disturbed water in its wake . . .