Jessica Ferri
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Book critic @latimes and @washingtonpost & owner @wombhousebooks . Author of Silent Cities New York and Silent Cities San Francisco.
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Tolstoy on early drafts of Anna Karenina: "I loathe what I have written. Everything in the galleys is so rotten, and the whole thing should be rewritten—all that has been printed too—scrapped, and melted down, thrown away, renounced.”
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Blake Butler’s “Molly” is the best book I read this year. It is so essential to everything I believe writing can be that I wish I could be reading it constantly. If only I were reading it now.
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Do yourself a favor and read this book. If you’ve already read it, read it again.
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Me leaving the used bookstore
leaving the stage of your biggest performance in motorcyle wearing custom dolce gabbana that's icon behaviour
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“The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage to write.” —Hélène Cixous
#h
élènecixous
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“To be a mother is to live piercingly and inescapably in the moment. The artist who is also a mother must leave the moment in order to access a moment of a very different nature, and each time she does it a cost is exacted, the cost of experience.”
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“Writing isn’t just telling stories. It’s exactly the opposite. It’s telling everything at once. It’s the telling of the story, and the absence of the story. It’s telling a story through its absence.” --Duras
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"Cusk told me that she would have been a different writer if she hadn't had children: 'I would have been a minor lyricist.' The compromise of motherhood, she continued, is an essential aspect of female reality . . . 'something has to be sacrificed.'"
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Getting “Cusk” and “Emre” on my knuckles after this one
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Thrilled to share my review of Catherine Lacey’s scary brilliant new novel, “Biography of X.”
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Just read the new Ernaux. Laid in the dark for twenty minutes. Said, “fuck!” to no one, wrote this tweet.
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“To be gendered female is to be caught between beauty and excess: made to choose. To be a monster is to insist on both.” —Lauren Elkin, “Art Monsters.”
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Never NOT a thinking about how Elizabeth Hardwick said Henry James was the best female novelist
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It was such a pleasure to speak with
@mervatim
about her bold new annotation of Mrs. Dalloway 💐
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Crying screaming and throwing up to be moderating a conversation between the legends that are Miranda July and Maggie Nelson at the LA Times Book Festival on April 20th. Tickets necessary! Also, nice blurb on Like Love.
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5:45am: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is obviously Jackson’s masterpiece and I’m just mad she died because damn what was next
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“I would not easily marry, I would not easily travel. I wanted to write this book.” Marguerite Young on “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.”
@Dalkey_Archive
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Have you ever read a book that felt like it was written for you? If so, what was it?
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Many thanks to
@smswrites
for talking with me about
@wombhousebooks
!
Womb House Books owner Jessica Ferri's carefully curated listings have turned her online storefront into the favorite bookseller of Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and thousands of Etsy customers.
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If there’s no Twitter, how will I discover all the books I need to read but don’t have time to from
@mervatim
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As far as I’m concerned, Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize was a lifetime appointment
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I began to understand what a story is. It’s a manipulation. It’s a way of containing unimaginable chaos. The job is to dredge it up, name it, and describe it completely.
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The books in my latest memoir round-up
@washingtonpost
made me laugh and cry, sometimes simultaneously.
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On the beach reading DH Lawrence on crucifixes wish I could get over this
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“Why is a woman’s only other alternative the violence of a death cult? The answer is anger. And the release of that anger is more than entertaining; it’s erotic.” I wrote about the work of Rachel Ingalls, women’s rage, and Ari Aster’s “Midsommar.”
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It was a bit like Saint Augustine and his conversion. In the same week, I had sex with a girl and I had the feeling that I could write. It was a complete change.
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“As much as he was the bard of sex and success, he was really the bard of human incompatibility.” Really enjoyed this review of the Roth biography
@xlorentzen
@bookforum
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I profiled “friendly tornado”
@sarahroseetter
, whose novel “Ripe” publishes tomorrow,
@latimesbooks
.
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I’m blown away by the support and the love
@latimesfob
. Thank you so much to everyone who came to see us
@wombhousebooks
. I love you all. Very exciting announcements to come soon!
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She was a girl, he was a skull. Can I make it any more obvious?
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Red Comet is a joyful affirmation for Plath fanatics and a legitimization of her legacy. Thrilled to review it
@latimes
☄️
#SylviaPlath
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“The relationship between reader and writer, holier than any relationship between flesh-and-blood creatures, is the only relationship that will tolerate no mortal ending.” Gorgeous work
@mervatim
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If you have been born into a secret life maybe you will always have one. It is like having the wardrobe you can walk all the way through, parting layers with your hands until you are unencumbered, free. —Patricia Lockwood
@TriciaLockwood
on “Molly.”
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Jamaica Kincaid on James Baldwin: But I always feel that his main project, his main impulse, was to write novels, to write fiction, and that this horrible situation—the oppression, the violations of our society—got in his way.
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“The Troubling Graves of Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill,” with
@EmilyVanDuyne
,
@gail_crowther
,
@juligoodcha
and yours truly is tomorrow 10am PST / 1pm EST. I hope you’ll join us.
#sylviaplath
#assiawevill
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“That people kill themselves because of my books won’t stop me from writing.”—Marguerite Duras
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Silent Cities San Francisco 🎃📕🎃
Hidden Histories of the Region’s Cemeteries ON SALE NOW! 🍂🍁🍂
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This is a fantastic read on the nature of trauma and “re-vision” in the Plath mythos. Thank you so much to
@EmilyVanDuyne
for the recommendation and to
@juligoodcha
for writing it!
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I reviewed “Eat Your Mind,” a new biography of Kathy Acker by
@jasonmcbride68
for
@latimesbooks
#kathyacker
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@the_taradactyl
@ladyfriday87
Hahaha yes!!!!!!!! What is going on?!!! I mean there is clearly chemistry there or they both deserve Oscars for best acting
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I reviewed Brad Gooch’s joyful and impactful biography of Keith Haring, “Radiant,”
@latimes
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“The cigarette for Guston was the most homely, appealing clock of them all: burning down, fitfully drawn at, used, disposable yet addicting—a kind of little life held between the knuckles.” —Ross Feld, Guston in Time
#philipguston
@nyrbclassics
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“I realized all the things I thought were my flaws — the digressing, the self-contradiction — in Bernhard that was the writing. I got very excited.” —Emily Hall (
@emilyhallnyc
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Always thinking about Joanna Biggs (
@JoannaBiggs
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Writing about Plath has always felt personal but this piece is particularly close to my heart. Thanks so much for reading.
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Writing a horror film about a person who gives birth and then following a global pandemic attempts to wear jeans again
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Had the pleasure of speaking with the brilliant Jen Craig yesterday. Editors — we need to get ‘Since the Accident’ back in print. In the meantime, readers, read ‘Panthers and the Museum of Fire.’
#jencraig
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WOMEN ACCOUNTED FOR ALL THE LOSSES
US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, according to the latest jobs report. Women accounted for all the losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000.
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It's a total thrill and completely surreal to share my first appearance in the New York Times Book Review! Many thanks to my editor.
Three memoirs recount past harm — consensual and not.
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I’m reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter for the first time in . . . Twenty-five years? This book! Where did it come from? 22 year old Carson McCullers.
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More like a Glasgow smirk — Stephanie LaCava’s “I Fear My Pain Interests You” hurts so good.
@VersoBooks
@StephanieLaCava
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“And there is no better hiding place,” he said, “than somewhere as close as possible to the truth, something all good liars know.” —Rachel Cusk, Kudos
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It’s a Bible — an art Bible
Many thanks to all who joined our event with Sheila Heti today!
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Very excited to announce that I am opening a bookshop, which has been a dream of mine since birth — follow us here and on Instagram!
Hello! Womb House Books, online bookshop will launch in November 2021. Stay tuned for newsletter information and presales 🌚🌝
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New Cusk and I have to go teach? Ludicrous
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Me, drowning in an avalanche of books: I'm going to spend this summer reading all of Joy Williams, every single word
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@AlisonStine
@Nicole_Cliffe
I haven’t eaten a chicken wing since the election bc I made delicious homemade buffalo wings for a party, obviously didn’t go, stayed up until 4am drinking whiskey, crying, and throwing up
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Not the Renata Adler of looking at your phone a lot, but THE Renata Adler
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@hels
The glasses and sweater Meg Ryan is wearing in the bookstore scene is one of my favorite outfits in all of cinema history “someone is staring at you in personal growth”
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Keep putting this book down and fretting about the room because I don’t want it to be over
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Yesterday I received an ARC. I read it in two sittings.
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Roxanna Asgarian’s “We Were Once a Family” is one of the strongest works of investigative journalism I have ever read. Everyone should read this book. It was an honor to speak with her for
@latimesbooks
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This book is incredibly disturbing and also very well written. I wonder if Chanel Miller will write another book. I hope so.
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Read a story by Joy Williams. Sit with head in hand, mouth slightly agape. Laugh to nobody there. Stifle a sob. Repeat.
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Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by
@gail_crowther
reveals a commonality of spirit but also of experience. So much in this book still resonates in women’s lives today, the lack of structural support and affirmation of lived experience through art.
#sylviaplath
#annesexton
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