In a new essay for Public Books, Ria Banerjee (@ria4983.bsky.social) encourages the rash reading of Virginia Woolf and the slow watching of Chantal Akerman.
“If you really want to avoid being horrible, you have to look at yourself and acknowledge that you can, in fact, do horrible things and maybe already have. And after all, you can’t avoid something you won’t admit is there to begin with.”
“And one day I just got up and started writing. And it was really intense writing this book.”
“Rash reading is floating with intent.”
New at PB: A call for reading well from @ria4983.bsky.social.
New at PB: In the penultimate episode of Season 4 of our podcast Writing Latinos, host @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks with author @aditaferrer.bsky.social about her new book, “Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter” (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).
“Collaboration is the only way to address the mounting ecological, planetary, & humanitarian crises we are facing this century.”
@catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim discuss the intellectual exchange inspired by Muriel Rukeyser, necessary to our shared future.
“Rash reading, slow watching: these contradict our culture’s worst too-online habits, such as ‘skim reading’ or ‘second screening.’”
“I see our project, Beyond Ourselves, in this same vein: an active acknowledgment that plural authorship is not only a necessity but a stark truth.”
In their new anthology Beyond Ourselves, @catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim urge resistance to individualism.
Ann Leckie’s (@annleckie.com) newest novel “Radiant Star” is centered on place & setting, in part inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, & the violence that results “when people feel their interests … are under threat.”
“‘Beyond Ourselves’ was written across vastly different time zones, pulled together over emails, cell phone messages, video calls, and Google docs while one of us was in Ireland, the other on the Pacific Northwest Coast of the United States.”
In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
“Panicking never helps. Building a new model of how things work (in your mind, and in the world) is going to take time and will be the result of many small, inglorious acts.”
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“People are buffeted byhistory sometimes in ways that they don't realize. Ourfamily was buffeted by these forces that were much greater than us.”
“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”
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“Panicking never helps. Building a new model of how things work (in your mind, and in the world) is going to take time and will be the result of many small, inglorious acts.”
“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”
www.publicbooks.org
In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
www.publicbooks.org
“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”
“People are buffeted byhistory sometimes in ways that they don't realize. Ourfamily was buffeted by these forces that were much greater than us.”
www.publicbooks.org
In the hands of this writer and this filmmaker, “the mother” is someone with whom to have a lifelong conversation, a contested perspective through which to read the world.
