Hello, good morning, they reissued Mavis Gallant's collection of nonfiction titled Paris Notebooks with an intro by Hermione Lee. Go read it. Immediately. lithub.com/hermione-lee-o…

My author’s copy of the exhibition catalogue Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800 arrived and I’m so excited! I co-wrote an essay on tapestries and woven and embroidered textiles. The show opens at Baltimore Museum of Art on Sunday. Can’t wait to see it in November!

The secret is out!

really looking forward to this! and I paged our Clueless screenplay today for an upcoming class -- all the stars are aligned 💫

It will be heading to the Tate next year so UK dwellers are in luck!

reeling from this daguerreotype of an "Editor" in the The Bibliographical Society of America newsletter today

Coat “Byzanthium”, by Fong Leng, 1976. Leather, snakeskin, suede, satin. Pink brocade lining. Credit: Amsterdam Museum Given by Carel and Mathilde Willink

A dreamy morning at the Boston Athenæum, gathering with Christine Jacobson & our Beacon Hill Books & Cafe Persephone Books roundtable to view items from the collections to elicit the worlds of fashion & women’s work in Dorothy Whipple’s High Wages and Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker.

when Jane Austen writes letters to her sister the same way your mother talks to you on the phone

My instagram discover page is 70% fountain pens and handwriting and vintage paperback books. And 30% emotionally vulnerable muscular men talking about their body anxiety. Which is to say, my Instagram discover page is just the novel Maurice.

Last night Christine Jacobson & I held the final meeting of our Beacon Hill Books & Cafe literary roundtable of Persephone Books on working women. We discussed labor rights, motherhood, department stores, and read fabulous paragraphs out loud. Some generous participants even did the voices.

an fyi to those who were concerned about Elizabeth Wurtzel’s papers—they arrived at Harvard today!

Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933–2024) no reader, no critic, no teacher has meant more to me. her inexhaustible work is our common bounty; getting to know her was my inconceivably good luck bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/met…

Helen Vendler was the most important "adult" (ie generation above me) in my life besides my literal parents. Intellectually & personally. I'll try to say more when I can. Please go read what she had to say about teaching and about the poets she loved. Words Chosen Out of Desire.

Couldn’t make it to The Persephone Festival, but want to hear Christine Jacobson and my session “Working Women in ‘The Home-Maker’” where we talk about domestic feminism, archives, and do dramatic readings? Listen here for free for one month only! m.mixcloud.com/Persephonebook…