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Susan Hemingway and Ana Zanatti in Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne (1977)
AKA Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 49
If you recall from a previous part, it is a class 2 intervention for a Time Lord to set themselves up as a god, and the punishment for this is vaporization. (Audio: False Gods) On an unrelated note, the Doctor is referred to ans treated as a god by many races and species in many different stories.
The Fifth Doctor has given Turlough and likely his other companions long, extended lectures on cricket. (Audio: Phantasmagoria)
The Master was connected to everything and nothing while stuck inside the Eye of Harmony. (Audio: Planet of Dust)
Sarah Jane was aware of the Master before they met in the Death Zone. (Novel: Managra) This suggests that maybe she heard of him through journalism or through UNIT, or maybe, of course, the Doctor spoke about the Master often enough that she became somewhat familiar with who he is.
The Twelfth Doctor once performed surgery on Danny Pink when he had been caught in a blast on an alien world. It was very important to both of them that Clara never found out about it. (Audio: War Wounds)
Time Lords have an instinctive fear of the Ravenous, like how sheep tend to be afraid of wolves and how deer freeze in headlights. (Audio: Deeptime Frontier)
By one account, Sarah Jane thought of the Third Doctor as a father figure but the Fourth Doctor as a mad uncle. (Novel: Managra)
The Master keeps a well stocked liquor cabinet. (Novel: Deadly Reunion)
Under the influence of cyberparticles, K-9 would say "no" instead of "negative." (Audio: The Fate of Krelos)
The Fourth Doctor recalled beating Ernest Hemingway at tiddlywinks, and apparently, Hemingway never forgave him for it. (Audio: Death Match)
The First Doctor and Susan were being pursued by the Chancellery Guard when they stole the TARDIS and ran away from Gallifrey. (Audio: The Beginning)
The Fifth Doctor once used his cricket bat to deflect a sword blow, but his cricket bat was damaged by the impact. This saddened the Doctor. (Comic: The Tides of Time)
The Guardians of Time number six in total and is called the Six-Fold God. All the aspects of the universe are split amongst the six of them. Included in the Six-Fold God are the White Guardian of Light in Time, the Black Guardian of Darkness and Chaos, and the Crystal Guardian of Dream and Fantasy (also known as the Toymaker). (Novel: Divided Loyalties)
The Fifth Doctor and Turlough once showed up to stop an evil from committing murder, only to find multiple versions of the TARDIS nearby and that the previous victims, burnt beyond recognition, all had two hearts. The Doctor realized that he was caught in a paradox and that the previous victims were his future selves who had also shown up to stop the murders. (Audio: Repeat Offender)
According to some, the Doctor was the best agent the Celestial Intervention Agency ever had. (Audio: Intervention Earth)
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Andy Warhol
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Frédéric Chopin
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mean Girls + Quotes Part 2
Find part 1 here
More quotes that remind me of mean girls characters and their various relationships :)
Regina
"i became bitter and untouchable. i craved affection but even the mere thought of someone caring made my stomach turn."
unknown
"i have survived everything but i fear that i cannot survive myself."
Cynthia Chapman
"was i raised without love? or was i born unlovable?"
unknown
"am i lonely because no one cares, or am i lonely because i'm not strong enough to let anyone get close enough to care?"
Rob Hill Sr.
"of course i look angry all the time. my entire life i've been fighting a war. i am soaked in pain and sadness. the irony however, is that i'm not actually angry, i'm trying to learn how to be happy. and that in itself is a war."
unknown
Cady
"i thought - i want to go home. i want to be in a place that feels like home. where that was, i did not know."
Katie Kitamura
"i understood myself only after i destroyed myself. and only in the process of fixing myself did i know who i really was."
Sade Andria Zabala
“do you ever wonder where you took a wrong turn? where your life became the exact opposite of what you wanted it to be?”
unknown
"i have always tried to make a home for myself, but i have not felt at home in myself."
Jeanette Winterson
Janis
"of course i'm angry. do you have any idea how many times someone should have helped me?"
unknown
"hurt an artist and you'll see masterpieces of what you've done."
unknown
"i don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though i may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful."
Susan Sontag
Gretchen
"what a sick little head, your love always turns into obsession."
unknown
"i don't think people love me. they love versions of me i have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. the easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love."
unknown
“i only know how to exist when i’m wanted.”
Mary Lambert
"i don't want to beg. i know you can feel it, my longing, the aching, my need for love. i don't want to beg. but oh god - oh god, please. please. love me. love me."
unknown
"for once i need to choose myself, or else i'm going to lose myself."
Veronika Jensen
Karen
“i believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. i believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. i believe while i tremble; i trust while i weep.”
Charlotte Brontë
Regina and Janis
"longing, how soft a word for such a ravenous feeling. how we hunger in silence."
Pavana
"dig your teeth into me. come on, i dare you. take a bite. open me up; raw and candy floss pink on the inside. make it hurt. i figure, you're going to hurt me one way or another. might as well be with your mouth."
Ashe Vernon
"i don't know what to do without you, i don't know where to put my hands."
unknown
"you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love."
Franz Kafka
"i love you and i always will and i am sorry. what a useless word."
Ernest Hemingway
Regina and Cady
"i love you. i love you unconditionally. i loved you even in my ignorance. i loved you when i didn't even know. i just love you."
unknown
"and on some days, i wish our paths had never crossed because you don't know how heartbreaking it is to know that someone like you exists in this world and i cannot have you."
unknown
“i must have you exclusively, fiercely, possessively.”
Henry Miller
"i still haven't figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do."
William C. Hannan
“fuck my pride. fuck everything. i’m so desperately hungry for you.”
Henry Miller
Gretchen and Karen
"the way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes."
John Mark Green
"when i think of life, i think of you. when i think of love, i think of you. safe to say that i really like thinking about life with you."
unknown
"come on, dance with me. the earth is spinning. we can't just stand on it."
Dino Ahmetovic
Regina and Gretchen
"i suffer in my loving, and you know it."
Willa Cather
"i loved you to the point of ruin. i loved you until my lungs were filled with ash."
Tina Tran
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The Best Books
The list is made from an academic point of view. More books may be added or any book may be taken out of the list at anytime.
Books that enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted us
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813
Emma by Jane Austen, 1815
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot, 1874
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884
Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885
The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, 1888
The Ambassadors by Henry James, 1903
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, 1913
Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 1916
Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, 1928
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, 1929
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 1929
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, 1933
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, 1937
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, 1937
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
Romola by George Eliot, 1940
Black Boy by Richard Wright, 1945
Hiroshima by John Hersey, 1946
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1946
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1947
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, 1951
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1954
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, 1955
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 1958
The Civil War by Shelby Foote, 1958
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger, 1959
Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 1960
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster, 1960
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, 1961
The Making of the President by Theodore H. White, 1961
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre, 1963
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 1964
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, 1965
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, 1965
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag, 1966
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 1966
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris, 1968
The Double Helix by James Watson, 1968
The Electric Kool_Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, 1968
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, 1969
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume, 1970
Ball Four by Jim Boutton, 1970
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, 1971
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam, 1972
The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp, 1973
All The President’s Men by Bob Woodwad and Carl Bernstein, 1974
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, 1974
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, 1975
Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson, 1975
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, 1979
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, 1980
Follow The River by James Alexander Thom, 1981
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm, 1981
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1982
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester, 1983
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984
The Center of the Cyclone by John Lilly, 1985
Great and Desperate Cures by Elliott Valenstein, 1986
Maus by Art Spiegelman, 1986
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 1986
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, 1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, 1987
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, 1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPerson, 1988
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky, 1988
Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer, 1989
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin, 1991
Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, 1991
PIHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin, 1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye, 1991
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, 1991
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1992
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, 1992
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1993
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts, 1996
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom, 1997
War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley, 1997
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, 1997
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, 1998
In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel Kevles, 1998
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, 1998
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, 2000
Nonzero by Robert Wright, 2000
Chocolat by Joanne Harris, 2000
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, 2001
The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wegner, 2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2003
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones, 2003
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2004
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, 2004
Portofino: A Novel (Calvin Becker Trilogy) by Frank Schaeffer, 2004
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, 2005
The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 2008
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World, 2009
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 2010
Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco, 2011
Books that inspired debate, activism, dissent, war and revolution
The Torah
Bhagavad Gita
I Ching (Classic of Changes) by Fu Xi
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1266
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1321
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza, 1677
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, 1678
Candide by Voltaire, 1759
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1781
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
Walden (Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1857
Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel, 1866
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1869
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883
Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, 1898
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, 1914
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, 1916
Psychological Types by Carl Jung, 1921
Mein Kampf (My Struggle or My Battle) by Adolf Hitler, 1925
Der Process (The Trial) by Franz Kafka, 1925
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Karma-glin-pa (Karma Lingpa), 1927
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes, 1936
The Big Book by Alcoholics Anonymous, 1939
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek, 1944
Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945
Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi, 1947
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1947
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, 1951
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960
Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevarra, 1961
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, 1962
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, 1962
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book) by Mao Zedong, 1964
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader, 1965
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, 1969
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, 1970
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, 1987
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 1988
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 1995
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, 1997
Books that shook civilization, changed the world
The Holy Bible
The Qur’an
The Analects of Confucius
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Histories by Herodotus, 440 BC
The Republic by Plato, 380 BC
The Kama Sutra (Aphorisms on Love) by Vatsyayana
On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (The Younger), 62
Geographia by Ptolemy, 150
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 160
Confessions by St. Augustine, 397
The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna, 1025
Magna Carta, 1215
The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis, 1400’s
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne, 1571
The King James Bible by William Tyndale et al, 1611
The First Folio by William Shakespeare, 1623
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 1687
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift, 1704
Encyclopaedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, 1751
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1755
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine by Richard Arkwright, 1769
Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce, 1789
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, 1791
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt, 1826
Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday, 1839, 1844, 1855
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855
On Liberty by John Stewart Mill, 1859
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859
The Rules of Association Football by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, 1863
Das Kapital (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) by Karl Marx, 1867
On Art and Life by John Ruskin, 1886
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1898
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, 1899
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906
Why Am I So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908
Married Love by Marie Stopes, 1918
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, 1928
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 1930
Why I Write by George Orwell, 1946
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Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week
SUSAN POWER
March may have come to an end, but there is still time to celebrate! The next Indigenous writer I would like to give the spotlight to is Susan Power (1961-), a Native American novelist who is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Dakotas. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised by her mother, Susan Kelly Power (Gathering of Stormclouds Woman, in Dakota) who is also an enrolled member, and her father Carleton Gilmore Power, who was a publishing sales representative. Her parents raised her to be politically and socially aware, and with their help became active in the Civil Rights movement. She was named Miss Indian Chicago when she was seventeen and after that went on to get an A.B. degree in Psychology at Harvard/Radcliffe, and later received her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She worked her way up from a housekeeping job to being the editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, which was the catalyst for motivating her to pursue creative writing. Her mother used to recite stories about their native lineage, and her father read her stories at night; she states that her inspiration come from her mother’s native influence as well as Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, and Shakespeare. By the age of twelve she had memorized the entirety of Romeo and Juliet.
Power ultimately decided to end her law career and pursue creative writing fully while she was recovering from an appendectomy. The catalyst for this choice was a Dakota Sioux woman standing in her hospital room wearing a sky blue beaded dress; this vision spirit would later become a main character of her first novel The Grass Dancer, which was published by Putnam in 1994. This novel went on to win the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novel in 1995. Her short fiction has also been published in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story, and The Best American Short Stories 1993.
Power focuses heavily on themes of ancestry, dream images, and intricate storytelling to fully engage her readers. She uses the strengths of these themes to relate her personal experience as a Native American woman while leaving room for the reader to interpret and respond to her writing in their own way without limiting the possibilities.
UWM Special Collection preserves Power’s Sacred Wilderness (Michigan State University Press, 2014) and Roofwalker (Milkweed Editions, 2002).
View more posts on Native American/First Nations Women Writers.
- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern
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Écrire comme Susan Sontag
Vous connaissez peut-être ces vidéos Youtube où le ou la vidéaste choisit d'essayer la routine d'écriture d'un•e écrivain•e célèbre : récemment, Dakota Warren a essayé celles de Virginia Woolf et d'Ernest Hemingway. C'est ce concept que j'ai décidé d'adapter pour inaugurer la partie labo d'écriture de ce journal en ligne. Et pour commencer, qui de mieux que Susan Sontag, dont j'ai dévoré Reborn (1947-1963), le premier volume de ses journaux — et à ce jour un de mes livres préférés ?
C'est dans le deuxième volume de ces fameux journaux, As consciousness is hardened to flesh (1964-1980) que Sontag prend, en 1977, une résolution :
Starting tomorrow — if not today:
I will get up every morning no later than eight. (Can break this rule once a week.)
I will have lunch only with Roger [Straus]. (‘No, I don’t go out for lunch.’ Can break this rule once every two weeks.)
I will write in the Notebook every day. (Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books.)
I will tell people not to call in the morning, or not answer the phone.
I will try to confine my reading to the evening. (I read too much — as an escape from writing.)
I will answer letters once a week. (Friday? — I have to go to the hospital anyway.)
Pour résumer : se lever avant 8h, cultiver sa solitude matinale, ne pas sortir pour le déjeuner, écrire dans son journal, attendre la fin de journée pour lire.
Concernant l'écriture dans son journal, Sontag identifie comme modèle les Waste Books de Lichtenberg. Ces Waste Books consistent en de petits carnets dans lesquels le philosophe traçait chacune de ses pensées, même les plus brèves, même les inachevées, même les moins intellectuelles. À l'origine, un waste book désigne un cahier de comptes, celui dans lequel les marchands britanniques notaient leurs transactions au cours de la journée pour ensuite les réécrire au propre dans leur livre de comptes. L'idée de Lichtenberg est donc de garder une trace des mouvements de la pensée au cours de la journée, mouvements qui pourront être ensuite abandonnés ou approfondis.
Pour "écrire comme Susan Sontag", telles seront donc les marches à suivre : se lever avant 8h, écrire le matin et en début d'après-midi, garder une trace dans un journal des différentes pensées qui nous traversent (même les plus insignifiantes), puis lire en fin d'après-midi.
une journée dans la peau de Susan Sontag
J'ai commencé ma journée à 8h, à la lueur des bougies : en prenant mon petit-déjeuner, j'ai relu l'idée de nouvelle tracée dans mon carnet pour pouvoir en commencer la rédaction dans la matinée, puis j'ai lu un chapitre de ma lecture en cours (Le Fantôme de l'opéra de Gaston Leroux) le temps de boire mon thé.
À 9h a commencé ma première session d'écriture, pendant laquelle je me suis concentrée sur mon projet du moment, un recueil de nouvelles. J'ai relu les nouvelles déjà écrites puis j'ai écrit le début de la suivante (un peu plus de 400 mots).
Pendant une (courte) pause, je suis tombée sur cette citation d'Éluard que je vous partage aussi :
Vers 10h, j'ai enchaîné avec une deuxième session d'écriture. Pour changer un peu de sujet, j'ai décidé de faire le dernier atelier d'écriture de Laura Vasquez (je rêve d'en ouvrir un!). Coïncidence pratique pour l'unité de cet article, l'atelier en question était fondé sur une réflexion de Lichtenberg, dans Le Miroir de l'âme. La consigne était de partir d'énoncés tautologiques pour arriver à l'expression d'un "je" en lien avec ces évidences, en se laissant porter par ce qu'elles évoquent. C'est loin d'être l'un de mes meilleurs poèmes (je commence même déjà à le détester), mais voici ce que ça a donné pour moi :
J'ai profité d'avoir fait cet atelier pour envoyer ce texte et les précédents à la revue des Ateliers d'écriture pour lesquels je devais aussi rédiger ma biographie d'auteur. (Gardez l'œil ouvert — un de mes poèmes y sera publié le 8 novembre !)
Enfin, j'ai terminé cette matinée d'écriture en me penchant, sur les coups de 11h, sur la rédaction de cet article, écriture beaucoup plus simple pour garder un peu d'énergie créative pour l'après-midi.
En début d'après-midi, dernière session d'écriture de la journée : j'ai commencé celle-ci par un peu de scrapbooking pour m'inspirer. Pour cette page, je suis partie d'un extrait d'article du magazine Lire sur Paul Valéry et son amour de la mer. On peut y lire que pour lui, la nage, « qui se soutient et se meut en pleine poésie », devient « le jeu le plus pur » qui donne son rythme à l'écriture ; ou encore qu'il décrit la mer Méditerranée comme la « scène d'un théâtre où ne viendrait agir, chanter, mourir parfois, qu'un seul personnage : la lumière ! ». À partir de ce thème assez large, j'ai écrit un court texte en écriture automatique, intitulé La Traque :
Nager c'est donner son corps aux monstres, le leur offrir en pâture, un acte gratuit de générosité pure : prenez ce que j'ai de plus cher et morcelez-le jusqu'à faire disparaître ses mots. C'est l'abandon avant d'être le néant, le don avant la destruction. Comme tout sacrifice, la nage a son rituel : dévêtir le corps de ses artifices quotidiens ; "goûter l'eau", comme la grenouille entrant dans sa marmite ; accepter de laisser son esprit au plongeoir puis partir, vite — partir où ? fuir quoi ? Fuir le carnage des émotions humaines, convaincus que l'eau viendra lécher nos plaies. Fuir l'atrocité sociale en laissant sa langue à la surface. Surtout, se fuir soi, chaque claquement d'un bras contre l'eau turquoise nous obligeant à ressentir, à toucher, à croire. C'est bien de croyance qu'il s'agit : croire que l'on soigne sa tête malade en poussant les membres dans une tension animale ; croire que l'on fuit (pour de bon, cette fois) les mots qui nous hantent, comme s'ils ne nous attendaient pas, sagement, au bout de la ligne ; croire que perfectionner, jour après jour, les techniques les plus complexes nous sauvera, le jour venu, de la noyade.
Enfin, j'ai terminé ma journée par de la lecture : je suis presque à la moitié du Fantôme de l'opéra qui pour l'instant me plaît beaucoup ; c'est une lecture (très) facile et parfaite pour la période automnale.
Quant à ma soirée, je l'ai passée à nager dans une piscine à l'eau turquoise...
Littérairement vôtre,
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michigan and its memories
the milk carton kids // lord huron // ryan herd // sufjan stevens // rogue wave // university of michigan men’s hockey team, ‘21-‘22 // hem // ernest hemingway // anson seabra // susan firer
#anthology of michigan-associated writing#lyrics#poetry#parallels#web weaving#university of michigan men's hockey team#ncaa hockey#umich hockey#oh the mortifying ordeal of being a top nhl draft prospect#and forming relationships you know are star-crossed#nhl#national hockey league
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do you have any fiction recs that aren't necessarily fantasy? i'm in a bit of a reading slump.
Yeah! Do you like sci-fi?
Some of these are teen fiction or homeschool assigned books, I hope that's ok. I don't know what you've already read, so.
Sci-Fi:
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children Series) - Margaret Peterson Haddix
I, Robot (the story collection) - Isaac Asimov
Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein
The Last Thing I Remember (Homelanders series) - Andrew Klavan
The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
Historical Fiction
The Sherwood Ring - Elizabeth Marie Pope
Mara, Daughter of the Nile - Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Shadow Spinner - Susan Fletcher
The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Great Brain - John D. Fitzgerald
Classic:
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
???:
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Homer Price - Robert McKloskey
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Susan Hemingway and Ana Zanatti in Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne (1977)
AKA Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
#die liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen nonne#love letters of portuguese nun#susan hemingway#ana zanatti#1970s horror#1970s movies#1977#jesús franco#drama#horror#nunsploitation
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Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Henry King, 1952)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, Torin Thatcher, Ava Norring, Helene Stanley, Marcel Dalio, Vicente Gómez, Richard Allan. Screenplay: Casey Robinson, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Leon Shamroy. John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Bernard Herrmann.
The film version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro is handsome and dull, just like its protagonist, Harry Street, who lies waiting for death on the plains below the mountain as his life flashes past his eyes. Harry is a writer who has spent his life doing all the things he thinks a writer should, which amounts to a men's magazine version of masculinity: hunting big game, going to bullfights and to war, and sleeping with beautiful women. The actor who plays Harry, Gregory Peck, is handsome, too. And if he's also a little dull it's because Peck is miscast: The part needs an actor with a lived-in face, someone like Humphrey Bogart, who was considered for the role. At 36, Peck was about ten years too young for the role. (The 52-year-old Bogart might have been a shade too old.) Still, Peck does what he can, and it's credible that women like Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward, and Hildegard Knef would have fallen hard for him. But the screenplay by Casey Robinson is a rambling muddle that turns Hemingway's spare prose into melodrama, partly by crafting Gardner's role out of nothing -- or borrowing hints of it from other Hemingway works like The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. Henry King, one of those studio directors who were handed big projects because they wouldn't mess them up, brings no particular vision or style to the film. The handsomeness of the movie is mostly in its casting, and in the Oscar-nominated cinematography of Leon Shamroy. Bernard Herrmann's score helps, too.
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Every book/movie/show Sara Quin has recommended.
and some reviews at the bottom, not the ones on skq reads
Books
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction by Reneta Adler
Against Everything by Mark Grief
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & and Clay by Michael Chaboan
A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
*An Education by Susan Choi
*Anything That Moves, Dana Goodyear
*Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel
*Artful by Ali Smith
*A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
*A Widow for One Year by John Irving
A Zine Yearbook by Jason Kucsma
Barbarian Days Surfing Life by William Finegan
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Barney’s Version by Mortecai Richler
Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
Borne by Jeff VadnerMeer
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan
By Blood by Ellen Ullman
By Grand Central Station by Elizabeth Smart
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis
Cats & Plants by Stephen Eichhorn
Changed my Mind by Zadie Smith
Cleopathra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Colour by Icons by Never Apart
*Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Death & Co by Alex Day and more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M Coetzee
Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
Do What You Want by Ruby Tandoh
Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechel
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Empire Of Illusion by Chris Hedges
Empty Nest
End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
Epilectic by David Beauchard
Essays Against Everything by Mark Grief
Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
*Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
Feeding My Mother by Jane Arden
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
*Flutter by Jennie Wood
Forty One False Starts by Janet Malcolms
Forgive Me if I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz Waters
Fosse by Sam Wasson
Fraud Essays by David Rakoff
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechel
Getting A Life: Stories by Helen Simpson
Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
*Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Groomed by Jess Rona
*Habibi by Craig Thompson
Half Empty by David Rake
Helter Skelter by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi
Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Machado
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II by Christopher Warwick
*H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald
*Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I Am a Camera by John Van Druten
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morries, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
*Independence Day by Richard Ford
Independent people by Halldor Laxness
Intimacy by Jean-Paul-Satre
I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames
I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro
Jamilti and Other Stories by Rutu Modan
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
*Kramers Ergot by Sammy Harkham
Krazy! By Bruce Grenville
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
*Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls- David Sedaris
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
*Light Years by James Salter
Likewise by Ariel Shrag
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish Perish by David Rakoff
Love In Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
Making Nice by Matt Sumell
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
May We Be Forgiven by A.M Homes
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Me before You by Jojo Moyes
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Music for Torching by A.M Homes
*My Education by Susan Choi
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
My Lifte in France, Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum
Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
My Struggle by Karl One Knausgaard
My Struggle 2 by Karl One Knausgaard
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Nasty Woman by Heather McDaid
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Nightfilm by Marisha Pessl
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics by Justin Hall
Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julien Barnes
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
Open City by Teju Cole
Opposite of Hate by Sally Kohn
*Paper Lantern: Love Stories by Stuart Dybek
Pauline Kael: A Life In The Dark by Brian Kellow
Paying For It by Chester Brown
*Pirates and Farmers by Dave Hickey
*Pitch Dark by Renata Alder
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
Polyamorous Love Song by Jacob Wren
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
*Provence 1970 by Luke Barr
Pulphead-Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
*Random Family by Adrian NicoleLeBlanc
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
She believed she could so she did by Julie ‘Hesta Prynn’ Slavin
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
Somebody with a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Special Exits by Joyce Farmer
State of Wonder by Ann Patchet
Stoner by John Williams
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
**Tenth of December by George Saunders
That Summer Time Sound- Matthew Specktor (sara narrates a part in the audio version)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Best American Comics 2007 by Charles Burns
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 by David Eggers
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
The Birth House by Ami McKay
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Dark Room by Susan Faludi
*The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
The Doors Of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions by Jonathan Lethem
The End of The Story by Lydia Davis
The Essential Elle Willis by Ellen Willis
The Fight by Norman Mailer
*The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
*The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Idiot by Elif Batumam
The Informed Air by Muriel Spark
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
*The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
The Irresponsible Self by James Woods
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom
**The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy by Julia Cooper
The Little Red Chairs by by Edna O’Brien
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
The Missing Piece Meets The Big O by Shel Silverstein
The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
The Nobody by Jeff Lemire
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
The People in the Trees- Hanya Yanagihara
The Notebooks of Malte Laurid’s Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Property by Rutu Modan
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
This life by Martin hagglund
The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes
The Slow Man by J.M Coetzee
The Spirit catches you and you fall down by Anne Fadiman
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner65
The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Things Are What You Make Of Them by Adam J. Kurtz
Thinking, Fast And Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman
*This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
To my Trans Sisters by Charlie Croggs
Tranny by Laura Jane Grace
True Stories by Helen Garner
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Unless by Carol Shields
Versed by Rae Armantrout
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov by Martin Amis
Vitamin PH: New Perspectives in Photography by Rodrigo Alonso
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee
WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution by Cornelia Butler
*Wake In Fright by Kenneth Cook
Wanderlust A History of Walking by Rebecca Saint
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
*We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Whatever happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Colleens
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
When Things Go Missing by Kathryn Schulz
*White Girls by Hilton Als
Winter by Ali Smith
Women by Charles Bukowski
(Woman) Writer: by Joyce Carol Oates
Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
*100 Essays I don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl
-Any works written by Renata Adler, Edward Albee, Roland Barthes, Alison Bechel, Beverly Cleary, J.M Coetzee, Susan Faludi, David Hickey, Elena Ferrante, Stephen King, John Irving, Jeff Lemire, and Lorrie Moore, and David Rakoff, Anne Rice, Donna Tartt, and John Updike
Magazines
Harper’s
Lapham’s Quarterly
Rolling Stones
SPIN
The Believer (August 2003, September 2004, November 2004, October 2008, November/December 2008, March/April 2009, June 2009)
The New Yorker
Bookstores
Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal
Sam Wellers Zion in salt lake LA
Strand Books
Housingworks
Mcleods in Vancouver
Powells
Sara wrote something short in ‘do what you want’ by ruby tandoh
also wrote the preface to jess rona’s book
Movies, Documentaries, Shows, Podcasts etc
Adventures in Babysitting
Arrested Development
*Bachelorette
Beauty is EmbarrassingBlack Power Mix Tape
*Bojack Horsemen (same artist as the Hang On music video)Broadchurch
Brothers and Sisters
Brown Girls
Bugsy Malone
Call me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino
Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson
*Charlie Rose
*ChungKing Express
*Dan Savage Lovecast
***DeadWood
Drinking Buddies
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Friday Night Lights
Full House
Game of Thrones
GarfieldGolden Girls Goonies
*Holy Motors
Home ImprovementI
nside Out
In The Loop
Lake
Legion
Little Shop of Horrors
L.O.V.E (tv series)
Madmen
Milk 2008
Moonlight
Nashville
Neon Bull
Orange Is The New BlackPhantom of The Paradise Rocky Horror Picture Show Sense8ShamelessShort Cut because 1992 Julianne Moore
Simon Killer
Sopranos Talk
RadioSpeed the Plow by David Mamet
Still Processing
Terminator 2
Terry Gross Fresh air NPR
The Bridge
The Crown
The Fall
The Fugitive
The Leftovers
The Minipops
The Thick of It
The Office (UK)
The Property Brothers
The Real Housewives of (anywhere)
The Wire
*This American Life
Tom Petty- Running Down A Dream
Trueblood
WALL-E
War of the Worlds
War Witch
Weiner-Dog
West Wing
2Dope Queens
13 Monkeys
30 Rock
and here’s some more book reviews from Sara
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
The truth is that I struggled to pick my favorite book or writing from Rachel Cusk. All three novels in her
Outline series
are fantastic, and I’ve reread each of them first with passion and then again with a studious eye. For me there is the lonely, yet pragmatic, keen observational protagonist that appeals to me deeply. But also, a woman traveling, forever on the receiving end of looping conversation with strangers. I find her writing extremely romantic. What I’d most like to include on this list, is a piece of her writing from the
New York Times Magazine
: "Making House: Notes on Domesticity." It is a perfect piece of writing about the struggle of making a home and living it in comfortably. “Like the body itself, a home is something both looked at and lived in, a duality that in neither case I have managed to reconcile. I retain the belief that other people’s homes are real where mine is a fabrication, just as I imagine others to live inner lives less flawed than my own.
”
Fire Sermon
by Jamie Quatro
Jamie Quatro’s novel about devotion, longing, lust and god was impossible to put down. I read it in one giant gulp. While male writers are given ample opportunity to write about these ideas, it still feels rare and thrilling when women do.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Everything Jesmyn Ward has written has haunted me afterward. Unblinking, brutal, heartbreaking stories. Her writing feels both modern and like something from a masterpiece that every student is meant to read in high school or college.
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
I love a hook, a melody that on first listen gives you goosebumps, or makes your stomach lurch up to your throat. Sometimes I hear one and I think, “that is a smash,” and then settle in to envy that I didn’t write the song myself. That was the feeling I had reading
I couldn’t help but compare our memoir because both books center adolescence and high school at their core. While Ben writes dazzlingly about masculinity and violence and the bubbling rage of teenage boys, I thought about the way we wrote about the paralysis and fear of being a queer girl in that same kind of world. While his boys turn their rage outward, we focused our violence inward, on the most tender parts of ourselves. Ben’s writing opens a door to understanding something about my own experience of those adolescent years. He sheds light on the parents and teachers whose complicated lives indelibly haunt our own, in ways we don’t realize until we become adults. It seems much of our public conversation revolves around what to do about and with men,
The Topeka School is a thrilling response. All of that to say, I think Ben’s book is a smash.
JUNE 3, 2009
1. The Flamethrowers by Rachel KushnerI was so captivated there was no choice but to finish it entirely in one long stretch of days. Passages so beautiful that I found myself re-reading them over and over again in amazement. I think it was in the Harpers Magazine review that they called it feminist and sexy. It’s true. An entirely fresh and inspiring heroine.
2. Light Years by James SalterSo many tears; on the tarmac, on the subway, tucked in my bus bunk. I will cherish this book forever. It is 40 years old and that made the discovery so much more powerful. It’s also a good reminder that I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges. I’ll cozy up with my tears any day, you can’t shame me!
3. Tenth of December by George SaundersThere aren’t very many writers with a body of work I love so completely. But, I think this is my absolute favourite. I have total admiration/awe for a mind this strange and wonderful
#tegan wrote a song for this book called Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs#it sounds like it could be in the con#you can search it on youtube it's there#there's some * asteriks cause she spoke mo#more about those#or liked them more#Sara Quin#tegan and sara#i'm sorry if i'm spamming tns tags with so much text i only have like 5 posts to make i swear#i've had this shit in my notes for like literally 10 years#from like#and stuff from their insta story or other things#interviews#SKQREADS#arrested development and the crown are both so good#and Moonlight
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12 and 17 for the book meme!
12: did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
I did! but also my experience of high school literature was... idiosyncratic.
We did American literature in my junior year. That fall we read a bunch of 19th-century stuff, mostly poetry and short stories, and I did enjoy the Edgar Allan Poe in particular. Then my English teacher came to me and offered me the option of doing an independent study in the spring semester. For context, I went to a very small high school -- there was only one section of the class and no honors track or anything like that -- so this was his way of offering me a more academically challenging experience. So he basically gave me a list of 20th-century American novels and my job was to hang out in the school library and read them, keep a journal, and periodically write papers. I did get to pick and choose from the list, so it wasn't entirely compulsory. But the list included a lot of the typical American lit canon. I liked The Great Gatsby a lot, I didn't care much for Catcher in the Rye, I had mixed feelings about Hemingway, and I'm kind of forgetting what else was on the list. But overall it was a pretty enjoyable way to experience literature in high school.
17: top 5 children’s books?
Hmmmmm, this one is a little tricky because i know there are a lot of great modern children's books that I'm not familiar with, and some of my childhood favorites have assorted issues. But I"m going to stick with some of my childhood favorites anyway.
(Also I started picking up sf/f from the adult section when I was like... 10 or so, so a certain amount of what I read in childhood were not strictly speaking "children's books.")
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (for all my tragic-orphan-fantasy needs)
Lloyd Alexander, The Prydain Chronicles (and also Westmark and its sequels, which are pretty brilliant)
Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family and sequels (I was actually just thinking about these, they are really lovely books about a Jewish family in early-1900s New York, and closely based on the author's growing-up years)
Noel Streatfield, Ballet Shoes (about a trio of orphaned sisters at a theatrical school, there were also a string of others in this series)
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (still a favorite! and also the rest of the series, but this one was my personal favorite)
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El ensayo «perfecto»: ‘Crack-Up’ de Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Encuentro en el ensayo la fórmula más completa y ambiciosa de expresión escrita. Y creo que esto es así porque el ensayo no sólo permite el uso de versos, cuentos, autobiografía, epístolas, greguerías o cualquier género o artificio literario, sino que además otorga al autor una licencia que considero sumamente poderosa: intimar en primera persona con el lector para trasladar una idea, normalmente con el objetivo de cambiar o combatir otra. Además, y esto es clave, se trata de una licencia que el lector concede de manera tácita cuando se enfrenta a este tipo de textos.
Sin embargo, precisamente debido a la versatilidad de este género y a la generosa licencia que el lector concede al autor para aprovecharla, el ensayista se expone a pagar un alto precio: escribir un buen ensayo es una tarea sumamente complicada y el juicio del lector suele ser más severo que con cualquier otro tipo de obra literaria.
Pensar en grandes ensayistas es pensar en Michel Montaigne, el padre de este género, en Susan Sontag, en Joan Didion, en José Emilio Pacheco, en Roberto Bolaño, en Arturo Pérez Reverte... Pero si hay un ensayo que personalmente considero una obra maestra es «Crack-Up» de Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Publicado originalmente en 1936 en la revista Esquire, «Crack-Up» se publica diez años más tarde junto a una serie de cartas y notas autobiográficas tras la muerte del autor estadounidense.
En Esquire puedes leer el ensayo de Fitzgerald (en inglés). Si tienes una cuenta en Scribd puedes descargártelo en español aquí.
En cualquier caso, te recomiendo mucho leer el libro bajo el mismo título que incluye correspondencia con figuras como Ernest Hemingway y apuntes personales en el que el magnífico relator de los dorados años 20, en sus momentos más bajos, decepcionado y sintiéndose alienado del mundo que le rodea, define la vida como «un proceso de demolición». A mi ver, las reflexiones de Fitzgerald conectan de lleno con la época en la que hoy vivimos. Es realmente una joya.
A continuación las primeras líneas de uno de mis ensayos favoritos:
Claro, toda vida es un proceso de demolición, pero los golpes que llevan a cabo la parte dramática de la tarea—los grandes golpes repentinos que vienen, o parecen venir, de fuera—, los que uno recuerda y le hacen culpar a las cosas, y de los que, en momentos de debilidad, habla a los amigos, no hacen patentes sus efectos de inmediato. Hay otro tipo de golpes que vienen de dentro, que uno no nota hasta que es demasiado tarde para hacer algo con respecto a ellos, hasta que se da cuenta de modo definitivo de que en cierto sentido ya no volverá a ser un hombre tan sano. El primer tipo de demolición parece producirse con rapidez, el segundo tipo se produce casi sin que uno lo advierta, pero de hecho se percibe de repente.
Antes de seguir con este relato, permítaseme hacer una observación general: la prueba de una inteligencia de primera clase es la capacidad para retener dos ideas opuestas en la mente al mismo tiempo, y seguir conservando la capacidad de funcionar. Uno debería, por ejemplo, ser capaz de ver que las cosas son irremediables y, sin embargo, estar decidido a hacer que sean de otro modo. Esta filosofía encajó en mis primeros años de vida adulta, cuando vi hacerse realidad lo improbable, lo inverosímil, a menudo lo «imposible».
@luis-martin
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Who are some of your favorite authors?
Women authors; Louise Gluck, Margaret Atwood, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Jane Austen, Anais Nin, Sally Rooney, Jean Rhys!
Male writers; Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller ( ew, I know), James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Baldwin!
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