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To-read: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Another for the reading list: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen. Childhood, Youth, and Dependency.
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“Got any spare change? Yes, thanks.”
Finally got round to reading Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds. It’s great, a graphic novel with the sort of heroine you don’t often see and a crime plot line with just the right amount of drama / pulp. And excellent illustration, of course!
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Shiny, tiny women
Joanne Burke makes beautiful jewels in bronze. Her rings are particularly lovely.
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On dead writer besties, from the Hairpin
On Dead Writer Besties, by Alexandra Molotkow from The Hairpin
It’s like realizing that there’s a garden when you’d only been shown one rose.
See also: Hazlitt Magazine, “a home for writers and artists to tell the best stories about the things that matter most to them” (Molotkow is a senior editor); The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (free on Google Books and Girlebooks); Those Who Write for Immortality by Heather Jackson (available via Yale University Press).
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Joan Didion
Photo of writer Joan Didion by Nancy Ellison (image source)
- See Didion’s packing list from The White Album
- Read a few of her essays online
- Read Guardian commentary on Didion as the face of the Céline Spring 2015 line
Edit 23/5/15 – Finished “Where I Was From”, read thoughts.
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Joan Jonas
Photo of multimedia artist Joan Jonas by Sebastian Kim for Interview Magazine (image source)
- See Jonas’s “They Come to Us Without a Word” at the United States pavilion for the 2015 Venice Biennale, presented in partnership with the MIT List Visual Arts Center
- See and read about her work at the Wattis
- View “Leftside rightside” on YouTube
- Read her lesson in AKADEMIE X
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The Pool, a new online media platform for women
The Pool, a new online media platform for women