“Freedom isn’t enough. What I desire doesn’t have a name yet.”
— Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

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“Freedom isn’t enough. What I desire doesn’t have a name yet.”
— Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
L'amica geniale | Season 4 (2024), Saverio Costanzo
Happy Together / 春光乍洩 (1997) 📍 dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Wedding In White (William Fruet, 1972)
Cat People 1942, dir. Jacques Tourneur
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry
The next line of her speech is also great: “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
Speech in Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
To the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks, from the heart. My family, my agents, my editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as my own, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I rejoice in accepting it for, and sharing it with, all the writers who’ve been excluded from literature for so long — my fellow authors of fantasy and science fiction, writers of the imagination, who for fifty years have watched the beautiful rewards go to the so-called realists.
Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.
Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.
Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial. I see my own publishers, in a silly panic of ignorance and greed, charging public libraries for an e-book 6 or 7 times more than they charge customers. We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience, and writers threatened by corporate fatwa. And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this — letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write.
Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
I’ve had a long career as a writer, and a good one, in good company. Here at the end of it, I don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. We who live by writing and publishing want and should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.
Thank you.
Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in Megalopolis (2024)
AUBREY PLAZA as WOW PLATINUM in MEGALOPOLIS (2024)
Ada Limón, “To Be Made Whole”, On Being with Krista Tippett
Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Paul Eluard, “Right in the Middle of the Month of August”, Selected Poems(trans. Gilbert Bowen) (x)
Fidencio Fifield-Perez (Mexican, d.o.b. unknown) - The Garden (2023)
Thomas Hart Benton, Studies, oil sketches, preliminaries and studio photos for Persephone, 1939
Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt
unflagged after years
― Louise Glück, October
I’d like to shoot you like a dog. Jessica Chastain as Miss Julie in Miss Julie (2014) dir. Liv Ullmann
Miss Julie (2014) | dir. Liv Ullmann
Miss Julie (2014) | dir. Liv Ullmann
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
period drama + winter
EMMA (2020)
BRIGHT STAR (2009)
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985)
LITTLE WOMEN (1994)
GENTLEMAN JACK (2019 - 2022)
ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019)
ANNA KARENINA (2012)
LITTLE WOMEN (2017)
THE MUSKETEERS (2014 - 2016)
CRIMSON PEAK (2015)