February 2012
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I'm blogging this week at The Awl btw
Doree: how is working with balk
i assume nothing has changed
me: it's eeeerily similar
"can i post a cat video"
"no"
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“Bellamy is such a powerful writer — so smart, so convincing, as she types out...”
– Emily Books: Because it’s broken by Sady Doyle
Breaking up is hard to do! Especially with the buddhist or someone like him.
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“Bellamy remembers, or maybe misremembers, Lacan saying that all relationships...”
– Emily Books: Our tribe by Rachel Monroe
on reading the buddhist while surrounded by surfer dudes in Panama
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literary criticism
me: a dick you're supposed to sympathize with
Ruth: right
me: you have to be GRRRRREAT fucking writer to pull that off
i can think of, er, three people who can pull it off
AND EVEN THEY CAN ONLY PULL IT OFF SOMETIMES
Ruth: not sure anyone really has
maybe Lipsyte
me: no, Lipsyte's a mensch
Amis, Roth, Geoff Dyer
that's it.
(as far as I know).
Ruth: WE HAVE A DEFINITIVE LIST, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
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“I think of intimacy as a tone created by various levels of mediation. In ‘the...”
– Emily Books: Without a net: an interview with Dodie Bellamy
The author of the buddhist talks about how she made her breakup into a blog, then made her blog into a book. Also: embarrassment, New Narrative, fiction, and covert communication. (We also talked about cats but that’s not in the...
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Extradiagetic bonus →
ruthcurry:
Love this whole piece EG wrote about smells/the perfume book, a book which I have pored over at length in her kitchen when we were supposed to be doing ‘work.’ My favorite part, selfishly, is when she talks about Tommy Girl. Fun fact for those reading at home: I’ve worn Tommy Girl for years, which Emily did not know until after turning in this story.
Me re: Tommy Girl, before I...
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“The quest to find a perfume that could be one’s signature scent is a lot like...”
– Still unable to get Perfumes: The Guide out of my system, I guess I will not shut up about it until I’m sure everyone has read it? Thank you to Elizabeth aka nosy girl for introducing us.
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the highlight of my Thursday
“Excuse me, can I ask you an interview?” said a beautiful young Japanese girl with a clipboard. I’d been in the library for a couple of hours at that point but I had just then, after hours of mindless scrolling, turned on Self Control (Self Control is the new Freedom) and started working. ”I’m so sorry, I can’t, I’m not even a student here,” I...
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“They were right in the middle of the most idiotic, the most ordinary predicament...”
– Things: A Story of the Sixties, Georges Perec
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alternatives
me: i think you need to follow more people on Twitter
Ruth: i follow 113
me: Twitter doesn't start to make sense as a narrative til you're following at least 200 people
alternatively we could all just kill ourselves
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“One thing this project has made me realize is that my need to love is even...”
– Dodie Bellamy, the buddhist
ah, love
(via emilybooks)
“(“Why,” wonders Kraus in I Love Dick, “does everybody think that women are...”
– JUST WANTED TO REITERATE THIS
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“What the pretense of privacy often does is protect us from reality. It is called...”
– Elizabeth Gumport on Chris Kraus in n+1 issue 13, Female Trouble
I am torn between BEGGING YOU to immediately read this essay and INSISTING that you read I Love Dick first, because this essay contains a spoiler about that book’s (perfect) ending. But definitely do both.
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Book Titles Taken From @Horse_ebooks Tweets That I...
Empty Space
Not Blaming Your Mother
The Delicate Balance Of Life And Death Is Shifting
The True Potential of Dumbbell
Democracy
The Hypnotic Power of Confusion
Your Strange Homecoming
Here’s A Real Story
The Basic Principle of the Magical World
Complex People
She is Forced To Illuminate
Everybody’s Business
Time Saving Strategies For The Average Guy
He Was A Blogger
Silent...
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“I wasn’t interested anymore in my failure as a dancer because I was too...”
– Emily Books: Dashed Hopes by Emily Cooke
I think this essay about mentors (and crying) (and failure) by Emily Cooke is fantastic and very funny. Side note: you don’t have to be named Emily to write for us, but possibly it helps? Come to the panel tomorrow please. Buy Sempre Susan. Buy the...
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“We spent an hour discussing the word “feritoia”—the untranslatable title of one...”
– Emily Books: Lapsus by Minna Proctor
Minna writes so beautifully about her mentor Monica Sarsini. Maybe you would also like to write about your mentor, or about being a mentor. Or hear brilliant people speak about either of those things this Sunday. I encourage you to do all of that!
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“I am always afraid to listen to a new female artist. I am afraid that either she...”
– The Dykings:
Yes! ”Embarrass my entire gender.” I think we all fear this. It fucks us up! Let’s be honest about it! See also: “It is tempting to feel resentful when we don’t see ourselves or our stories or our ideals reflected in the prevailing narratives of femaleness....
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“…an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of...”
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dodie bellamy, in the buddhist. a year and a half ago, when mike and i broke up, emily gave me i love dick. this breakup season, she gave me the buddhist. i cannot put this book down for obvious reasons. (via karaj)
PSA: I am there for you with the breakup books, especially if you are getting a...
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“Middle aged women are such easy prey, like they’re supposed to walk around with...”
– Emily Books: Crone Vision
Dodie Bellamy makes me LOL. More here
“An in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability is a powerful feminist strategy …...”
– Dodie Bellamy via Emily Books (via rachelfershleiser)
see
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“It’s still hillarious to me remembering that in the 90’s I routinely demanded to...”
– Kathleen Hanna
this might be happening slightly inside my own head but I feel like a moment of convergence is happening in the world where we’re all talking about the same thing. I hope it’s happening in both places.
Also this is how I feel/felt about my refusal to take my...
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“Write the woman you are, or sing her, or stitch her, or shout her as loud as you...”
– How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down
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“woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing,...”
– helene cixous, the laugh of the medusa, 1975 (via karaj)
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“I am what is called a sex-positive feminist. Or maybe a radical feminist, or,...”
– Liz Phair forever
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