‘Dickinson’ Creator Alena Smith Talks the Show’s Final Season

Beyond Alena Smith’s head, which is framed in the Zoom screen of my MacBook Air, there is an empty corner on her built-in bookshelves. I’m a sucker for built-ins, and so I comment on them, joking that she might need some more books to fill them in. “That entire side used to be all my Dickinson books,” Smith says. She didn’t purge them completely—don’t worry. But she managed to get rid of a handful and moved the ones she wants to keep to a different spot. “I created space for new things,” she says, speaking quite literally. This is, of… Read Full Article