Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A mid-year list 🧡

more about Art Monsters:
youtube.com/watch?v=vKMXNLZIVxE&t=805s
more about Is Mother Dead/Martyr!
youtube.com/watch?v=0fY1mwPlsi8
more about Martyr!/Art Monsters/Dictée:
youtube.com/watch?v=ozR-5RZ6iN8&t=8s
more about Say Nothing/Ordinary Notes/My Face for the World to See:
youtube.com/watch?v=d6nqmeZ3vKE&t=735s
more about The Hearing Test:
youtube.com/watch?v=GxeYvk9uNyo&t=23s

books:
My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar (2021)
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, Lauren Elkin (2023)
Dictée, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
The Door, Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987) (reread)
Jazz, Toni Morrison (1992)
A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years, Carolyn Abbate & Roger Parker (2012)
My Face for the World to See, Alfred Hayes (1958)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Say Translation is Art, Sawako Nakayasu (2020)
Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe (2023)
All Fours, Miranda July (2024)
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, Olivia Laing (2024)
Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti (2024)
A Burst of Light, Audrey Lorde (1988)
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton (2024)
Liars, Sarah Manguso (2024)
The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan (2024)
The Red Tenda of Bologna, John Berger (2007)
Love, Clarice Lispector (trans. Katarina Dodson) (1960)

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