A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder
Reading Levy helped me envision a way of writing myself again into existence, of remaking a home and a life, to visualize it as the adventure I was thrust into.
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Year In Reading: Anne K. Yoder
The result is the novelistic love child of David Lynch’s third season of Twin Peaks and David Bowie’s concept album Outside; it’s truly just as strange and wonderful and hallucinatory.
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Past Made Present: On Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s ‘Photostats’
I’m wondering, when will there be an intervention, a disruption, a reckoning with the current trajectory we’ve taken? Perhaps it begins with the 2020 elections and becomes something we enact daily.
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In the Process of Becoming: The Millions Interviews Amina Cain
There's something nice in a text or an object or a person that appears polished and neat, but there is also something appealing about one that wears its changing nature on its sleeve.
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A Year in Reading: Anne Yoder
I was nonplussed by the clarity of his name and my seeming lack of connection to it, and so I followed this thread to see where it led, if it did.
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Humane, but Not Nice: The Millions Interviews Amanda Goldblatt
I’m interested in art that reflects flaws as opposed to resolving flaws, or seeking to resolve flaws. Whatever deepens flaws is more what I’m into.
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The Ascent of the Sick-Girl Narrative
Why have literary memoirs of illness written by women become so popular over the last few years? And what does their success say about our society?
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I Don’t Want So Smooth a Shape: The Millions Interviews Laura Adamczyk
It’s adaptive to become a sort of supreme noticer, and I believe there is a certain power—a feminine power—in that: to see and make sense of what you see.
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A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder
Many of the novels that stayed with me hijacked my expectations of what a novel is or can do.
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Image and Appropriation: On Lynne Tillman’s ‘Men and Apparitions’
Tillman is not asking how should a person be or how does the world look, but rather, how does a person become? And how do images complicate these notions of ourselves and this desire to become someone else?
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A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder
Books were also, for me, bright stars against the dark night of our political nadir.
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An Inheritance of Lost Mothers
Zambreno casts her mother as lead, mysterious beauty, with cigarette, Coach purse, floppy hat. If she’s present here in literature, it seems there is the potential of moving on.
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Encouraging People To Fail: The Millions Interviews Patrick Cottrell
The navigation of the madness of the world is endless.
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A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder
How does one reconcile the impossibility of making a difference in the world while attempting to live as if you still can?
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Baby Fever: On Belle Boggs’s ‘The Art of Waiting’
But 'The Art of Waiting' isn’t memoir. It lacks the interrogation and consideration of what it truly means to mother beyond the heteronormative definitions of vaginal birth and sharing your offspring's DNA.
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To the Depths of the Darkness: The Millions Interviews Annie DeWitt
I am constantly evaluating the sounds of words -- both lyrically and sonically. Where do they mesh? Where does the tone or the pace shift? What section should be played "Lento," "Legato," "Fuerte," "Fortissimo."
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Fiction Must Be Fed: On Margaret Cavendish, Frida Kahlo, and Marie Curie
What does it mean to be a female artist, or really an artist of any kind? Like Athena emerging from Zeus’s head fully formed, Cavendish and Kahlo emerge from these books as mentor-mothers, born again in imagination and time.
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A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder
The books that stayed with me seem so intrinsically entangled with these ideas of time’s passage, of regret, of collecting and fracturing narratives, of the need to live through art and the desire be devoured by it.
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