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“Here, this is my theatre.” Motherly effort, winterising yourself, readers and writers kissing like two fish, Daddy Issues and traumatic narcissism, Si…
Jessica Stanley
Jan 8
“Is it from your life? Did this really happen?” Trusted readers, dependence, afterwardsness and re-visioning, culinary anhedonia, artists' kitchens, ha…
Jessica Stanley
Dec 8, 2020 1
Communion has occurred, plotblocking, Hermione Lee, elite panic, disaster nationalism, Reputation Rehab. "Use a little lip rouge, to begin with." And a…
Jessica Stanley
Oct 27, 2020
Elif Batuman's perfect piece, structure is not the enemy of unbridled expression, the trauma of Zoom, the difference between misogyny and sexism, is th…
Jessica Stanley
Sep 6, 2020
Very Quiet Foreign Girls, binge eating, the pain of revision, older Millennials owe younger ones an apology (and Lorrie Moore goes IN). Lastly: collaps…
Jessica Stanley
Jul 23, 2020 1
Everything you'd expect from a READ.LOOK.THINK. inc. Alan Hollinghurst's new Instagram AND how your donation can directly help black people in the UK a…
Jessica Stanley
Jun 10, 2020
Writing before you’re ready can cause damage, Simone de Beauvoir was ‘a clock in a refrigerator,’ emergency brownies, bootlicking, "I’ll take it, if yo…
Jessica Stanley
May 3, 2020
Freedom to be absorbed, our challenge in a painting, the world on pause, just keep moving, thrilling truths, a perfect French house.
Jessica Stanley
Apr 5, 2020
Shame, a G-chat affair, “you’re having the wrong feelings,” the home of the last Mitford, Himpathy, cabbage, and ill-advised parenting tips from me whi…
Jessica Stanley
Mar 18, 2020
Primo, 100% infallible novels to lose yourself in during scary times and feel gripped, warm, safe, emotional, human and alive.
Jessica Stanley
Mar 12, 2020
"... I’ve always been asking the world, 'See me, see me, please.' And now I’m, like, 'Don’t see me!'" PLUS: The problem for realist novelists, a cookbo…
Jessica Stanley
Feb 24, 2020
A piece that will give you back a sense of hope. Celia Paul. Parent detective work. Risk assessments. Instant Pot yay/nay? Sleepovers. “I’ll be your fa…
Jessica Stanley
Feb 1, 2020
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