Want to read: A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle 📚
Want to read: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) by Hettie Judah 📚
🔖📝📚 Read I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child? by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett (The Guardian).
Coslett has as many questions as answers and mentions a lot of books I’m keen to check out.
Want to read: This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris 📚
🔖 Read How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris by Ravynn K. Stringfield (Shondaland).
Great interview! I need to go track down Harris’s work.
🔖 Read Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub).
I want to be an art monster like Grover: lovable and loving and imaginative.
Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood 📚
🔖📚📝 Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle).
This is a great essay about what can happen when we bring our kids into the work of art with us, when our kids become part of our creative community.
Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚
I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less about art-making than I expected. It’s also excellent.
Look, I’d love to play in an improv jam but I can no longer do things that START at 10 pm so I guess I need to organize an improv jam for sleepy people or you know, parents of young children.