BU professor Elizabeth Goldsmith’s book about 17th-century Kardashians?
Boston University professor Elizabeth Goldsmith was at the BU Barnes & Noble on Tuesday night to read from her book “The Kings’ Mistresses,’’ which is about the dramatic lives of Marie and Hortense Mancini. Goldsmith recently got a boost from Kirkus Reviews when the journal called Goldsmith’s “Mistresses’’ a “the 17th century version of the Kardashian sisters.’’ We had to wonder whether Goldsmith agreed that Marie and Hortense had anything in common with Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian. Her response? Not so much. She told us: “It would be as though the Kardashians left Los Angeles with only their jewelry and some cash on them and went to the coast of Somalia pursued by agents of their husbands, rented a sailboat and navigated through pirate-infested waters until they got to Yemen, where one of them became the mistress of a Sheik and the other pushed on across the desert, passing armies and warlord territory, to Syria where she was temporarily given shelter by the president, in the middle of a civil war.’’ Sounds like a great reality show, right? Goldsmith’s next stop with “Mistresses’’ is at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles on May 3.
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