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Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine interviewmagazine.com
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Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine interviewmagazine.com
The postpartum experience isnβt just expensive; it can also be one of psychic trauma and creative crisis. Someone who was a person becomes a mother. βYouβre not a person. You donβt have a name,β says Zambreno. This feeling of erasure is a current that runs through her work, reaching peak intensity in βTo Write as if Already Dead.β βI need to restore myself after being made into a ghost,β Zambreno says. βI always feel like writing the most when Iβm being made invisible.β
Kate Zambreno on her new book "To Write as if Already Dead" - Los Angeles Times latimes.com
ππ₯οΈ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be the most engrossing post I’d read all week and it did not disappoint.
ππ Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A heartbreaking excerpt from Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, Somebody’s Daughter.
ππ Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together personal experiences of trans matrescence and the books Detransition, Baby and The Argonauts.
ππ Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhoodβ¦ While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual fragmented life of a mother is intensified by the pandemic.
π I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt I couldn’t be happier to be aging into my natural camp grand dame-ness. ππ»πΊ
ππ Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] (https://austinkleon.com/2021/05/04/wintering-and-dormancy/), quoting Katherine May’s book Wintering. I’m reading the book right now. What I didn’t know before reading but appreciate is that May is writing about leaving academia.
ππΊπ Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant
ππΊπ Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details what Picard explains in the TNG episode “The Neutral Zone.” A 20th century man asks “What’s the challenge?” & Picard says “To improve yourselfβ¦ enrich yourself.”