Recommended Reading: London’s Feminist Library is at risk of being evicted. Broadly spoke to some of the women who are taking to the streets to save the space.
Fighting for Space
Guernica Talks to Robert Thurman
“Look, if you meet someone with one leg, are you going to sit and revile them for not having the other leg? No, you’re going to be happy that they have the one and praise them for it. And get them thinking about how can we substitute for the one that’s lacking. Which are you going to do?” Robert Thurman quoting the Dalai Lama on embracing the positive in an interview in Guernica, where Thurman speaks about nonviolent resistance, the potential for a demilitarized world, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama.
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The Black Woman Writer
"Women writers and writers of color don’t really have the luxury of being known simply as writers. There’s always a qualification," Roxane Gay writes for The Nation. She ponders what it means to be a "black woman writer" and concludes that we should view diversity as a search for "urgent, unheard stories."
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A Bit Florid
What were your hobbies when you were a teenager? Emily Dickinson collected flowers.
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E-reading with Jonathan Franzen
It was with "a sort of resigned sigh" that Jonathan Franzen signed some reddit user's kindle.
Confessions of a Modern Opium Smoker
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, and Charles Dickens wrote about opium smoking in their novels. But if you read the way they describe opium smoking, without a doubt these people never saw the real thing. It’s laughable…What we see in movies, even to this day, with the obligatory London opium-smoking scene is complete fiction." Interview with a modern-day opium addict.