The Kelly and Brenda of newsletters has lost all chill. (Not that we had much in the first place.) This week: High-flying nuns, Jessica Simpson’s assets, and a Gap hoodie that just won’t quit.
Re 'Three Reads. Item #1." The Dame is new to me, as is the author. Referred by a great architecture critic, Mimi Zeiger. It's a deliciously small world sometimes.
Just reading the NYorker profile of Yanahihara. And I'm wondering why Max keeps mentioning her sexual proclivities? Do we usually read about the subject's preferences for boys or girls? I'm glad to know (I guess) but...why?
I too found this startling! (Though in my case, delightfully/satisfyingly so…Is it vulgar to admit I’d always wondered?) I think the justification is probably that queerness is so central to her work—definitely to her fiction and in a different way to her T.
Agree that it is relevant because it's such a big part of her books or at least of Little Life-- but writer should have made the point that it's relevant in her case, no? Good eye, Val!
Re 'Three Reads. Item #1." The Dame is new to me, as is the author. Referred by a great architecture critic, Mimi Zeiger. It's a deliciously small world sometimes.
The Dame, and that dame, were both new to me too Elaine. Your friend Mimi is ahead of the times!
Just reading the NYorker profile of Yanahihara. And I'm wondering why Max keeps mentioning her sexual proclivities? Do we usually read about the subject's preferences for boys or girls? I'm glad to know (I guess) but...why?
I too found this startling! (Though in my case, delightfully/satisfyingly so…Is it vulgar to admit I’d always wondered?) I think the justification is probably that queerness is so central to her work—definitely to her fiction and in a different way to her T.
Maybe?
Agree that it is relevant because it's such a big part of her books or at least of Little Life-- but writer should have made the point that it's relevant in her case, no? Good eye, Val!