#KateBriggs24 The next newsletter is out for weeks 14 & 15 (🙏 Rebecca Hussey!) with a link to the survey for our next video call. readingkatebriggs.substack.com/p/katebriggs24…

Books I’m currently spending time with.

Can someone please reprint this book?! #LeonoraCarrington #RemediosVaro #KatiHorna

They say to dress for the job you want.
The job I want:

“Indeed, for most of her life she had thought of herself as a normal citizen of the 21st-century United States, endowed with the same rights and privileges as anyone else, and certainly not possessed of any special capacity for time travel.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

“Agnes left some lines uncovered on the borders, showing us how happiness is made. How even happiness is made by writing something down, then leaving it exposed for all to see. Is it possible to be seen, but not looked at?” — Victoria Chang, The Islands, 1961

📷 Agnes Martin

“The reading life, the beauty-filled one, was central to the livable internal life my mother tried to carve out for us and to equip us to make for ourselves.” — Christina Sharpe, Note 152

#NYRBWomen24 “The Golden Cangue (金鎖記) is a 1943 Chinese novella by Eileen Chang … C. T. Hsia considered it ‘the greatest novelette in the history of Chinese literature.’

#nyrbwomen24 [Aloeswood Incense] I’m mesmerised by Chang’s luscious descriptions but I especially love it when they slither into something a little dangerous and threatening. Lines that act like an exotic frog, colourful and seductive but equally poisonous 🐸

The series Anil Harshaneeyam has put together on the #2024InternationalBooker is wonderful & it was such a treat this morning to listen to friend Marina Sofia talk about KAIROS! ✨ harshaneeyam.in/2024/

#BlackLamb24 Montenegro: Kolashin

'She was one of those widows whose majesty makes their husbands seem specially dead'

e.g., my great-aunt Elizabeth Calvey

Today’s library pick-up!

I know there is Dayswork by Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel and Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams (and a larger number of theoretical-critical books that are cowritten).

Are there other cowritten novels you'd particularly recommend?

‘I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?’- Maya Angelou, Gather Together In My Name

Discover all seven volumes of Dr Angelou's autobiographical writing: brnw.ch/21wIEwv

👀 November 12, 2024

Frida Kahlo's hand drawn mapped out floor plan of her home, Casa Azul, Mexico #womensart