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Vivian Leopold James, a prayer for debut authors, some reading reccs, two potters on 19th Century farm in Paris and sad, hurting people.
Jessica Stanley
Dec 6, 2019
Helen Garner does the housework, coquetamine, after publication comes depression, "Instagram mama" scandals, disaster collectivism.
Jessica Stanley
Nov 19, 2019
Tits from the past, writing about people who don't look like you, fungal acne, our broken sense of time.
Jessica Stanley
Nov 1, 2019
READ: “Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: ‘Hitler is making a speech.’ I shouted back, ‘I shan’t come. I’m p…
Jessica Stanley
Oct 15, 2019
READ: “In the following months, the author invited me to attend his various lectures and readings around town. I heard him talk about the idea of the p…
Jessica Stanley
Aug 11, 2019
“The result of the referendum was a transfer of angry feelings from many leavers, those who had been economically and socially squeezed, to remainers. …
Jessica Stanley
Mar 22, 2019
READ: How to kill your envy. | The nadir: a second birth story / “It feels like we are going into this alone, but I don’t mind, because I don’t need th…
Jessica Stanley
Jan 4, 2019
READ: The last Swiss finishing school. | No Makeup, by Sharon Olds. | No one wants to hear the truth. | Meaghan Daum’s affair with the intellectual dar…
Jessica Stanley
Oct 20, 2018
This interview with Viv Albertine from punk band The Slits made me immediately buy her two books. Both are great but To Throw Away Unopened is some kin…
Jessica Stanley
Jul 20, 2018
READ: Japan’s Rent-a-Family industry. | Obviously I will watch it but I’m worried about how the Patrick Melrose novels will translate on TV. (How Edwar…
Jessica Stanley
May 18, 2018
READ: How do we write now? | “[Penelope] Fitzgerald was fifty-eight when her first book was published. Her whole life, she was just as smart, just as c…
Jessica Stanley
Apr 21, 2018
READ: “Faced with a woman’s story, we’re overtaken with the swift taxonomic impulse an amateur astronomer feels on spotting Sirius: “There it is!” he s…
Jessica Stanley
Mar 23, 2018
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