Martha French (@marfafrench) 's Twitter Profile
Martha French

@marfafrench

Literary scout

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The Sound of Music (@soundofmusic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're saddened to hear of Christopher Plummer’s passing. His legacy as our Captain will live on in THE SOUND OF MUSIC forever. Our thoughts are with his loved ones during this time.♥️

The Poetry Society (@poetrysociety) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“So that is poetry really loving the name of anything” from Gertrude Stein's lecture 'Poetry and Grammar' #mondaymotivation #LGBTHM21

“So that is poetry really loving the name of anything”
from Gertrude Stein's lecture 'Poetry and Grammar' #mondaymotivation #LGBTHM21
James B (@piercepenniless) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Back the the British Library today for first time since the plague. Was unprepared to be emotional about it. It is an unalloyed good that a library of international significance is open to everyone in the country, for free.

Back the the <a href="/britishlibrary/">British Library</a> today for first time since the plague. Was unprepared to be emotional about it. It is an unalloyed good that a library of international significance is open to everyone in the country, for free.
Parul Sehgal (@parul_sehgal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A fifth-generation Californian, she once said: “Don’t you think people are formed by the landscape they grew up in?” She was our landscape. My appraisal of Didion nytimes.com/2021/12/23/boo…

Bess Kalb (@bessbell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Whatever we say Joan Didion will outlive every single one of us. Imagine making such an indelible contribution to the canon while being so cool. We are so lucky she committed her thoughts to paper and we get to read them. Everything I do is trying to imitate her. Joan forever.

Alexandra Schwartz (@alex_lily) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sally Rooney writing in 2018 on the Irish abortion ban. "Consent, in the form of a donor card, is required even to remove organs from a dead body.... In the relationship between fetus and woman, the woman is granted fewer rights than a corpse." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/…

Sally Rooney writing in 2018 on the Irish abortion ban. "Consent, in the form of a donor card, is required even to remove organs from a dead body.... In the relationship between fetus and woman, the woman is granted fewer rights than a corpse." 
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/…
Sophie Haigney (@sophiehaigney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨This summer, Sheila Heti began talking to a chatbot named Eliza about God, art, and consciousness, before things took some strange turns. This week, we're publishing a new work that came out of these conversations in five parts (they are amazing) theparisreview.org/blog/2022/11/1…

VANITY FAIR (@vanityfair) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The friendship between Joan Didion and Even Babitz was fraught and unlikely, but one is not understood without the other. vntyfr.com/RToP2qp

New York Magazine (@nymag) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Every April, for the past 12 years, we have celebrated New York Magazine’s anniversary (it’s our 55th) with a “Yesteryear” issue. This year’s looks back at a particular New York phenomenon, the “It” girl. trib.al/ggV3uTr