WHY YOU NEED TO READ : JOAN DIDION SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM | THE WHITE ALBUM | PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
“I’m not interested in the middle road…..maybe because everyone’s on it.” Read her for an insight into life as a sequence of images that shimmer around the edges. Because it is on those edges that you begin to hear a stranger music. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, […]
SECOND PLACE by RACHEL CUSK
“”Is it possible to follow up the masterpiece that is the OUTLINE Trilogy [Outline, Transit, Kudos] with another book that is just as good?” This profound meditation on art, freedom, men and women, is a beautifully woven tapestry that takes you out of your domestic limbo and into a place Cusk loves to entrap you: […]
MERMAID SINGING | PEEL ME A LOTUS by CHARMIAN CLIFT
“”Today we bought the house by the well. ” I think no beauty has been as true for me as this beauty of rocks and sea and the beauty of mountains that rush up between the blue. It seems to me that we have become simplified too, living here……Shedding so much, we are stripped to our […]