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Enjoy your slop (opens the original)
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I like being around creative people because they always make little things. We had this joke between some of us a few years ago, about a ropey piece of art getting an overly generous critical response, and someone said “It just makes me think: Enjoy your slop!” and then Felix went away and made a special stamp. He stamped it on a load of his books. I have a stamp of it pinned up near where I write. A little while ago H gave me a Christmas decoration she had made, based on my book, which is pinne
How it feels to be attached to a device full of hundreds of eyes and opinions all day and night (opens the original)
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I loved Life of M. I will be doing an event talking about it on 17th September. I think you can watch this after. I will share the stream here.I read it as a book about being a woman and trying to exist when you have all these expectations placed on you. And I read it as being about creativity and where it comes from, and what it does to your life to devote so much time to making art, and to use material from your own life ex
This woman is BEAUTIFUL on the inside (opens the original)
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I remember a while ago on Twitter someone (a woman) made this horrid thread that was titled something ghastly like: “Women writers I admire who AREN’T hot girls.”I am paraphrasing this slightly, but actually only slightly. There was a vague spiel about women bravely being ugly or similar. And then they posted a thread of photos of women who they essentially deemed to be unattractive, as if this was a really benevolent, generous spirited thing to do. Quite a few of these were women who are inargu
Trapped in a prison of your own expectations (opens the original)
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Hello again,I read Businessmen As Lovers by Rosemary Tonks recently. Her work was recommended to me by the wonderful Jess White, who has among the best and most reliable taste in books of anyone I know (and has also been working on fiction of her own which I am excited about).Literally the only way I can tell if a book will be good anymore is if someone I know recommends it to me or I read an excerpt. Call me old fashioned, but reviews should be less a plot summary or about who k
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