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Yes. This is a person who once came up to me while I was on the phone, actively phone bidding for someone at auction, to correct a typo in a catalogue 🫠

If you’ve read it, I think you probably understand that part of the point of my essay was the difficulty of doing institutional research on historical women. So not having interviewed every single relevant person, for a subject who died in the 50s, is maybe forgivable?

I know this is just life, which is actually something this person taught me over many years of contact. Breathe. It’s fine.

One of the most frustrating people from my life in NYC has written me a note criticizing my Grolier Gazette article because I didn’t talk to one person (I did contact them and they stopped answering my emails) and another person (who is DEAD and didn’t overlap with my subject at all).

my favorite mean remark about a film w/ a classical subject is what vincent canby says about cacoyannis’s Trojan Women, in passing, in his review of something else I never saw it so I can’t say if he is correct except insofar as it is correct to be the world’s biggest bitch when the fancy takes you

I truly can’t imagine because I was in such a state of despair until it was developed, and experienced such an incredible revitalizing hope when I was able to get it (and all the boosters). In some ways, the happiest moments of my adult life were the weekend after my first vaccine series cleared.

One of my many flaws that when I’m watching TV/movies and someone wears shoes on a bed, I have to yell “SHOES ON THE BED!👿” and I just found myself doing it while looking at an erotica catalog.

We should write a letter

OH MY GOD

Wait… Jason Schwartzman as Adam… Léa Seydoux as Eve…

If my alma mater were still a women’s college, and if they still had a classics dept, I would give my collection to them someday with an endowment for a special collections intern. But they are now investing in cyber security and gym, as I understand it.

It seems to be a collected volume of Lucy Osborne’s library reports for Chapin. Obviously I have to have that. She didn’t write that much!!!

I’ve talked myself out of buying a lot of things lately. But I just bought something new for the Bookwomen collection. I mean. Present to myself for sending in Book Collector draft?????

2 Vast 2 Trunkless

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Wes Anderson’s The Pillow Book

Yes like. If you’re getting paid to write about this, please do some basic legwork!

Sorry to be mean. I’m tired, dawg. It’s not that these things aren’t worth discussing, but they’ve been discussed. For 2000 years.

In a media landscape that brought us “performative reading” I can’t handle “wow are books commodities now?” too. Go to the library and stop obsessing over what other people do with their books. I beg.

My patience is maybe especially low for this right now because I just got done working on an Arts-and-Crafts era book and revisited when we all had this conversation a hundred years ago (and it was already tired then!!!).