Lots of stuff this past month.
Shoot me a message if you want to talk about any of the art below.
This coming month we have an essay on Anne Carson and Patrick Langley’s stories in the New Yorker for paid subscribers and an essay on Percival Everett’s novel Wounded for everyone.
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Read:
Nadja by Andre Breton
When I Was Mortal: Stories by Javier Marias
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
Transit Comet Eclipse by Muharem Bazdulj
Telephone by Percival Everett
Watched:
Anatomy of a Fall (2023, dir. Justine Triet)
The Zone of Interest (2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer; I wrote about the film here)
The Thin Red Line (1998, dir. Terrence Mallick)
Sibyl (2019, dir. Justine Triet)
Listened:
i’ve seen a way by Mandy Indiana
Gigi’s Recovery by The Murder Capital
When I Have Fears by The Murder Capital
ORQUIDEAS by Kali Uchis
Songs: Ohio by Magnolia Electric Co.
O Monolith by Squid
Wall of Eyes by The Smile
Most Normal by Gilla Band
Other:
Leslie Jamison excerpted her new memoir in The New Yorker, which I found to be constructed in a fascinating manner. Mostly, the lingering affects the selection unsettled me about the ways she drew herself as opposed to her ex-husband. What’s brilliant, is her efforts to truly center their child in the story and from there slowly reveal the marriage dynamic.
Dylan Riley wrote about W. E. B. Du Bois in Sidecar recently, specifically as it relates to claims made about the politics of his Black Reconstruction.
The pair of short essays by George Hoare in Damage, here and here, about the NHS and its history are good primers on the thing.