Kimberly Hirsh
🔖📺 Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Building’s Big Twist.
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🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre.
In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, and awarded, Kayser makes me think about who gets to be critics and who can afford to go to shows.
🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).
🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic.
Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book events even when it’s safe to hold them in person.
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The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com
🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today:
- Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy (Tor.com)
- How Harrow the Ninth Uses the Language of Fanfiction to Process Grief (Tor.com)
- “What did I know of mortal babies?”: Six Parenthood Lessons From CIRCE (Book Riot)
- Out of the Closet and Out of Time: On Being an Old(ish) Mother (Literary Hub)
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Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com
To think of the mother as artist does not necessitate a conflict, nor does it require a choice between passive domestic surrender or total domestic rejection, although for a long time the world demanded that it did. Such frames only reinforce hierarchies, limit her to merely a fragment when, of course, she is com posed of many pieces.
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Craft — a designation used to subjugate many art-making practices that have been the domain of women: needlepoint, pottery, quilt making. With their connections to the home, these mediums have been historically dismissed, supposedly lacking the rigor and intellectual complexity of high art.
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“I have drawn my children and painted them endlessly and I cannot distinguish them from my soul…"
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she sometimes wonders why an artist must inhabit turmoil or drama to be taken seriously.