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.♥️

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

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.

A life in quotes: bell hooks theguardian.com/books/2021/dec…

Everyone wanted to write like her, and no one did.

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…

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.

if you don't know the story it's mentioned in the New Yorker profile of her from 2018! newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

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/…

Sheila Heti asks Caren Beilin about the purpose of studying literature, writing and reading:

i’ve shared this before maybe but it’s so good I’ve got to share it again

One of the many passages of Hilary Mantel that will never leave. ‘All houses are haunted.’ RIP.

Hilary Mantel about facts, history, and the past. RIP.

🚨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…

This Natalia Ginzburg sentence, nested in an essay, is almost a short story

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

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