Category is: Culture
Loved list: 2021 💖
Here we go again. End of another year, and — as in 2020 — I’ve been back through my newsletters from the past twelve months and collaged together the things I read, watched or listened to that stuck with me the most. It’s far from definitive, it’s not themed beyond being vaguely chronological, but it nevertheless forms a messy picture of where my head and heart were and went during 2021.
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Making things, loving them and letting them go
Lately, I’ve been incubating some big changes. After eleven years as founder and director of For Books’ Sake, I’m stepping down to focus on other things.
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In the Dream House
“The Dream House was never just the Dream House. It was, in turn, a convent of promise (herb garden, wine, writing across the table from each other), a den of debauchery (fucking with the windows open, waking up with mouth on mouth, the low, insistent murmur of fantasy), a haunted house (none of this can really be happening), a prison (need to get out need to get out), and, finally, a dungeon of memory. In dreams it sits behind a green door, for reasons you have never understood. The door was not green.” — In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
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Loved list: 2020 💖
Welcome to the loved list for 2020, a partially reconstructed assortment of recommendations of things to watch, read, listen to or otherwise explore that were shared in my newsletter throughout the year.
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