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“What counts is what we are, and the way we deepen our relationship with the world and with others, a relationship that can be one of both love for all that exists and of desire for its transformation.”
—Italo Calvino, from his 1959–1960 trip to the U.S.
The Ladies Home Journal. Cover design by Harrison Fisher (October 1905).
Watercolour cats by Endre Penovac
I am 100% behind an all cat production of Pride and Prejudice
Book cover _Chronicles of spirit photography_ 1882
The Seance giclee print by SamuelAraya
A ghostly sighting from 1899, from the National Archives U.K.
Episode 053: Mystery solving teens and Stranger Things episodes 5-7 with special guest Kate Racculia
Our friend Kate Racculia joins us this week to talk about why teens and kids are such good detectives, and to weigh in on all things Stranger. We talk about Veronica Mars, Scooby Doo, and Nancy Drew, and we try desperately to stop Andrew from reading Inspector Gadget fanfic out lout. In the third installment of Stranger Things TV Book Club, we go deep on representation in fiction and The Cult of Barb. Margaret admits her love for Hopper, we all swear unending fealty to Dustin, and Kate helps us keep our Curiosity Doors open.
I joined ATV for a fantastic episode about Mystery Teens! Stranger Things! and what the point even is of recombining and remaking all our old favorites into new shows! And also which of the Friends would get eaten first in a monster movie!
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, FRIENDS.
Looking at my calendar, it appears to be September 1st.
Too early for witches, bats, and cats? I think not. Thus some Dennison Manufacturing Co.Dealer’s Catalogue of Tags and Specialties, 1913-1914.
It’s almost the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the yeaaarrrrrrr
Wings on wings
“our happiness” - Eileen Myles
was when the lights were out
the whole city in darkness
& we drove north to our friend’s yellow apt. where she had power & we could work
later we stayed in the darkened apt. you sick in bed & me writing ambitiously by candle light in thin blue books
your neighbor had a generator & after a while we had a little bit of light
I walked the dog & you were still a little bit sick
we sat on a stoop one day in the late afternoon we had very little money. enough for a strong cappuccino which we shared sitting there & suddenly the city was lit.
Steven Spielberg in the jaws of Jaws, 1975
Here’s today’s Daily GIF!
Up all night, Dan McCarthy
Inspirational messaging
It’s worth reading this whole paragraph.
The novelist Bonnie Nadzam on her writing process:
“I have no process; if I did have a process, I would have no confidence in the process. I didn’t do any of the things you’re supposed to do when writing. I didn’t a have an office or separate room in which to write. I didn’t have a desk. I sat on the floor, or on a zafu on its side, or on the porch, or out back, or at the coffee shop, or at the wine bar. I didn’t write every day and certainly not at the same time every day. I was working full time and sometimes more than full time at a job unrelated to art or teaching or writing. I didn’t go to any retreats or residencies or conferences. I checked my email in mid-sentence. Frequently. I didn’t write straight from my gut, so-to-speak — I thought as deeply as I could about the book on every level — sentence, theme, character, overall structure, and still, I might add, ended up surprised by the results and making discoveries I cannot explain and that I’m relying on readers to tell me about. I re-read and studied carefully my favorite novels. I listened to a couple of them on audio, when I needed my hands free to do things like laundry or painting. I read a few dozen other novels, too. I simultaneously worked on another book (Love in the Anthropocene, cowritten with Dale Jamieson). I interrupted myself continually to garden, make elaborate dinners, renovate the house, go running, and tend my own dying father. I got pregnant. I slept on my side for 18 hours a day during the last three months of the pregnancy and didn’t write or read a thing, I mostly just drooled. Then I had twins. I moved twice, once selling and once buying a house. I had way too many people looking at early drafts. I just kept swimming in the mess until it all felt more or less right. And then it was time for it to go into production and I had to stop. It’s all a mystery and a mess and that’s why I do it. This is both the source of and the salve for all the anxiety involved. It’s awful and wonderful. It’s like when you’re crying so hard you start laughing. There should be more words like bittersweet.”
(Full interview on The Millions)
Oh my heart this is it exactly
