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Colette dies in Paris at the age of 80. Denied Catholic burial, she is given a government funeral “and lies in state like a military hero” (August 3, 1954).

Melinda French Gates Is Ready to Take Sides nytimes.com/2024/07/28/mag…

Edna O’Brien, groundbreaking Irish novelist, dies at 93 wapo.st/4cYv2Sh

I'm thrilled to have a short story included in 'Double Feature' one of the three books Saint Lucy Books / Mark Alice Durant is working on for a Spring 2025 release. The book is a compendium of vernacular double exposures, reflections, shadows, and mimicked gestures from the

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Colm Tóibín on the enduring influence of James Baldwin: “I think what’s terribly important about Go Tell It on the Mountain is that almost no white person gets to speak.”

Morally Grey, Angry, and Chaotic: Why Readers Love the ‘Unhinged Woman’ Trope indiependent.co.uk/morally-grey-a… via @The Indiependent

Jasmine Crockett! If I started a fan club for her, which I have never done before, how would I do it? I watch her debate and she astounds me with her brilliance and fearlessness. I wish everybody in Congress had her nerve and verve.

Local artists in seaside town of Worthing have raised 100s of lbs 4 a community defibrillator, painting pizza boxes. A micropub, The Brooksteed, organized auction titled “A Slice of Art” to raise $$ 4 a new potentially lifesaving machine, to be located outside the pub.

👀Looks like the official read of "book guy summer" is Lynne Tillman's WEIRD FUCKS. Who are we to argue? asterismbooks.com/product/weird-…

Sex-trafficking victim Chrystul Kizer gets 11 years for killing her abuser wapo.st/3yHVfpi Kizer was sentenced to 11 years, Yes, she murdered a man. Her life was under threat; she had been savaged, exploited &sexually abused repeatedly by this man. If she were white?

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"Ever wondered why so many Roman statues are headless? Archaeologists have discovered that in some cases, ancient Romans purposely severed the statues as part of an official condemnation of the memory of an especially disliked politician." Good idea.

Rosalind Fox Solomon & Lynne Tillman, A Woman I Once Knew: granta.com/a-woman-i-once… The Mack book of this work is soon to be available, and it's Fox Solomon's writing also, and it's really good.

UN will soon release its Gender Snapshot report; last yr warned if current trends con't. over 340,000,000 women&girls would live in extreme poverty by 2030. In March, World Bank found no country in the world affords women the same opportunities as men in the workforce."

Gregg Bordowitz: Dort: ein Gefühl - Announcements - e-flux e-flux.com/announcements/…

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