In Popular Culture
- The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death provided the inspiration for the Miniature Killer in the popular television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- Glessner Lee is paid tribute in the award-winning hard-cover book Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshua Gee.
- Glessner Lee was reportedly the inspiration for Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)