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    Writing About Writing: Muriel Spark, Elena Ferrante and Sylvia Plath
    Lelia
    • Jun 4
    • 3 min

    Writing About Writing: Muriel Spark, Elena Ferrante and Sylvia Plath

    It occurs to me that writers write about writing a lot more than I realized. Take The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. According to an article...
    Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story
    Lelia
    • May 21
    • 7 min

    Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story

    Great Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
    Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading
    Lelia
    • Apr 30
    • 7 min

    Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading

    About halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
    Penelope Fitzgerald & the Exponentially Possible
    Lelia
    • Apr 19
    • 1 min

    Penelope Fitzgerald & the Exponentially Possible

    Barbara Pym wasn’t a Penelope Fitzgerald fan. In a letter to Phillip Larkin, Pym writes, “I read Penelope Fitzgerld’s The Book Shop,...
    Megan Marshall and the Art of Biography
    Lelia
    • Apr 2
    • 4 min

    Megan Marshall and the Art of Biography

    As a biographer Megan Marshall plays very close to the vest. She doles out her subject in single words or phrases, holds stories out of...
    Trying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The Bookshop
    Lelia
    • Mar 19
    • 2 min

    Trying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The Bookshop

    Penelope Fitzgerald writes such quietly brutal books. Florence Green with her naivete and kindness says toward the end of The Bookshop,...
    Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West
    Lelia
    • Mar 14
    • 4 min

    Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West

    Early in Vita Sackville-West's All Passion Spent, the elderly protagonist Lady Slane says, “Besides, I have considered the eyes of the...
    Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
    Lelia
    • Mar 12
    • 4 min

    Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

    In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde uses the erotic, or what Mary Karr might call the carnal, to deeply embed herself in her...
    Saturn and Your Great Work
    Lelia
    • Mar 9
    • 2 min

    Saturn and Your Great Work

    Accomplishment is one of the ways we measure our lives, but in terms of what gives meaning to our lives, accomplishments are often merely...
    Bernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & Resilience
    Lelia
    • Feb 28
    • 4 min

    Bernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & Resilience

    There’s a great passage in Manifesto: On Never Giving Up where Bernardine Evaristo declares “In spite of what my father endured, he never...
    An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I
    Lelia
    • Feb 18
    • 6 min

    An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I

    Imagine that Joyce Carol Oates*—who does not seem the type to sit with an astrologer, but let’s pretend—came to see me for a New Year’s...
    Barbara Pym's Full and Quiet Life
    Lelia
    • Feb 9
    • 2 min

    Barbara Pym's Full and Quiet Life

    A Very Private Eye, Barbara Pym’s autobiography in diaries and letters, is lovely in just the way Barbara Pym’s novels are lovely: quiet...
    Good Behavior + Beauty Norms
    Lelia
    • Feb 2
    • 4 min

    Good Behavior + Beauty Norms

    I finished Good Behavior which I read without great relish. I mostly cringed and held my breath. Molly Keane is merciless in presenting...
    "Nightbitch" & Wildness: A Descent to Soul
    Lelia
    • Jan 24
    • 7 min

    "Nightbitch" & Wildness: A Descent to Soul

    Nightbitch has created a tangled skein of ideas in my head and I’m not sure I’ll unravel it. You know how Austin Kleon does mind maps? I...
    Eudora Welty, Peter Schjeldahl + Bill Plotkin
    Lelia
    • Jan 16
    • 3 min

    Eudora Welty, Peter Schjeldahl + Bill Plotkin

    In The Optimist’s Daughter, the dark forces in the novel are Fay and her family, people “who never know the meaning of what has happened...
    Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect
    Lelia
    • Jan 11
    • 10 min

    Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect

    Don’t you think Persuasion the best Jane Austen novel ever? It’s by far my favorite. That’s kind of a joke because most characters in...
    Imagining 'Vague Days' Clearer through Writing*
    Lelia
    • Jan 8
    • 3 min

    Imagining 'Vague Days' Clearer through Writing*

    I’m experiencing a concatenation of ideas about writing, self-understanding and self-actualization. Joan Didion started it. After her...
    My Best-of Book List for 2021
    Lelia
    • Jan 2
    • 4 min

    My Best-of Book List for 2021

    I like year-end best-of lists. Reading others’ lists is a fun way to learn about things I’ve missed. And thinking about my own best-of...
    Endeavoring in 2022
    Lelia
    • Jan 2
    • 2 min

    Endeavoring in 2022

    I’ve never been big on making New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, the idea used to annoy me deeply back when I worked out at a gym and...
    Anam Cara, the Unlived Life and Shadows
    Lelia
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Anam Cara, the Unlived Life and Shadows

    I’m trying to reread Anam Cara, and I can’t stomach the pollyanna sunshine spiritual message. O’Donohue writes, “Light is the secret...
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