BDM

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critic & essayist / my dog's name is Boswell i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/ header image: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237761

There are so many new magazines to compete with you in your own field now that one must forever resign himself to pulp paper. These new magazines split up the field so. Quality of stories must also suffer, but as yet your magazine shows no such decline. Probably because of the better rates you offer. Mr. Asimov thinks women of no account in history. Points out that men are the famed leaders. But history is a record of wars and sad oppression. Women are not famous for such things as this. Let men have all credit as rulers in history. But wait-wasn't there a certain maid of Orleans? Women are great in other things, too. I am reading what I believe to be the best novel in my experience: "Kristin Lavransdatter," by Sigrid Undset. Don't give man
May 2014 tweet from Tom Morello (@tmorello): When I was a kid I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem on a daily basis than it really is.
I’m interested in this subject but I don’t really want to wait around for your book. Feed me. Some non-fiction books you might like (Bookshop links are affiliate links). I have read some of most of these but have only read all of a couple: Octavia Butler (Gerry Canavan) Joanna Russ (Gwyneth Jones) The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Justine Larbalestier) In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction (Sarah LeFanu) The Secret Feminist Cabal (Helen Merrick) James Tiptree, Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (Julie Phillips) Letters to Tiptree (ed. Alexandra Pierce) Galactic Suburbia (Lisa Yaszek) Julie Phillips is also working on a Le Guin biography that I’m quite excited for. There are a lot of women writer–centric SFF anthologies to get a sense of the spread of stories out there and I’m not sure if there is any particular one I’d recommend. The Library of America had a two volume set but it seems to be out of print. Maybe this three-volume Rediscovery set is the best buy. Alternately, if you’re more interested in this period in SFF writing, the Damon Knight Orbit anthologies might be worth a look. And I will again recommend Bobby Derie’s website for C. L. Moore stuff—I wrote to him asking for help tracking something down and he mentioned he’s thinking about writing some more about her this summer. So keep an eye out! :)
Critic and essayist B.D. McClay's WEIRD SISTERS, a group biography of Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin-the star-crossed women who defined and defied the science fiction genre-exploring the art the women pursued, the limits they reached, and their very human entanglements, to Sally Howe at Scribner, by William Callahan at Inkwell Management (world).
personal finance 8:00 A.M. What It’s Like to Plan a $50,000 Party for a 5-Year-Old Portrait of Charlotte Cowles By Charlotte Cowles, the Cut’s financial-advice columnist.
manga named "otherworld barbara" by moto hagio
Uzumaki Coloring Book SPIRALS… THIS TOWN IS CONTAMINATED WITH SPIRALS… Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted not by a person or being but a pattern: Uzumaki, the spiral—the hypnotic secret shape of the world. The bizarre masterpiece of horror manga, Uzumaki by Junji Ito, has been transformed into coloring book format. Color in each detail of the spirals and you may fall into a whirlpool of terror, never to escape!
American psycho but Patrick Bateman is a swiftie: You like Taylor Swift? Her early work was a little too country for my taste. But when 1989 came out in 2014, I think she really came into her own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. She's been compared to Selena Gomez, but I think Taylor has a far more sarcastic, self-deprecating sense of humor. In 2017, Taylor released this; Reputation, her most accomplished album. I think her undisputed masterpiece is "Delicate". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the insecurities and uncertainty of starting a new love. It's also a personal statement about the singer herself.
Sir Walter Raleigh spreading his cloak before Queen Elizabeth
i'm a girl who is going to be okay
Clare Coffey: why do the people of melancholia not simply attack the rogue planet with hammers Barbara McClay: i think this is the plot of armageddon Clare Coffey: that's why you want to be in america not france when things get real
Tweet from Faber Books: "The opening lines from Intermezzo, the new novel from Sally Rooney. Coming September 2024." Quotation: "Didn't seem fair on the young lad. That suit at the funeral. With the braces on his teeth, the supreme discomfort of the adolescent."
83.5/8.36= Taylor outstreaming Gaga at a 9.988038:1 ratio yesterday
tweet from @aquariusdays: i bet your ex is waiting to hear from you:) you should message them!
taylor swift at a piano that says the tortured poets department, file name: the bolter
karen carpenter in a white floral print dress
Fortnight (with Post Malone) The Tortured Poets Department My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys Down Bad So Long, London But Daddy I Love Him Fresh Out the Slammer Florida (with Florence & the Machine) Guilty as Sin? Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? I Can Fix Him, No Really I Can Loml I Can Do It With a Broken Heart The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived The Alchemy Clara Bow The Bolter
a taylor swift studies emergency broadcast
Read: 15 books, 5,712 pages pie chart showing "moods": mysterious, dark, tense, reflective, challenging, informative, lighthearted, funny
me chillin in sweatpants
boswell self sacrificially offering me disgusting chew he had hidden somewhere
Go outside. Shut the door.
Myrna Loy, Being and Becoming: A Memoir
did you know there's a thousand page barbara stanwyck bio under ocean blvd
Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals she bought every @TaylorSwift13 album with her commissary money
It's now "embarrassing" to read Kafka, Camus, Dostoevsky, or even to eat pomegranates; these activities must now be avoided at all costs or done in secret
‼️| "Reputation Stadium Tour" is reportedly leaving Netflix on December 30th
I would like to see more In Which The Honorable Inftitution of the Small Building and Loan is Mofte Triumphantly VINDICKATED and less “through one fateful summer in Connecticut, explores the subtleties and of race, gender, and class in America—and the seductions of complicity”
Vintage Depression Era Pink Pressed Glass Bedside Carafe and Glass - 2 Piece Set.
Ebert’s expansive, jovial character immediately comes across in this memoir and in other published portraits. Siskel remains more of an enigma, because he died young and also because he was a far more private individual, rarely speaking of his personal life. The portrait of Siskel that emerges in Singer’s telling is fascinating. A former Yale roommate declared him “the most competitive person I’ve ever run across—more so than Michael Jordan or Bill and Hillary Clinton.” Ebert said so, too: “Gene was the most competitive man I ever met.” Ebert may have been intensely conscious of a rivalry with Siskel, but Siskel’s competitive ferocity and confrontational chutzpah were on another level. When asked by his first boss at the Tribune what his ultimate goal was, Siskel answered, “Your job.” (When a colleague expressed shock, Siskel replied, “Candor. It is powerful. It knocks people off their feet. They are not used to it. Try it some day. If you’ve got the guts.”)
I can excuse shoving needles into a man's face but I draw the line at dog torture.
I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'Cause I care