Female Artists Archive
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Moon River: The Genius of the Parent
Posted on April 9, 2013 | 4 CommentsWhen I was a little boy, I loved to sing. I don’t think I associated it with being a performer; singing was an extension of the music I loved, and words, and the singers I loved–Dionne Warwick, that kind of... -
Toni
Posted on March 23, 2013 | 2 CommentsThese photographs are by Jill Krementz, and were taken of the author Toni Morrison while she was an editor at Random House, in the nineteen-seventies. On Fridays, the esteemed author taught a class at Yale, in the African-American studies department... -
Sarah Polley’s Mother
Posted on October 6, 2012 | No CommentsDear X: You have been much on my mind, I’m terribly sorry I couldn’t make the birthday party, but it would have involved getting my head around another event in order to be present to you and Y, and I... -
Fiona Apple
Posted on June 29, 2012 | No CommentsSome people stay open to experience, despite the slings and arrows of life’s always outrageous misfortunes. To be a pretnaturally hopeful person is to generally stand apart from one’s more mundane friends and family, among whom complaint too often passes... -
The Widow
Posted on February 15, 2012 | 12 CommentsSnow can be a notorious memory stimulator. Last Saturday, when we experienced what felt like winter weather for the first time in a long time, I was having dinner with a gay female friend who works mostly in Los Angeles.... -
On Janet Malcolm
Posted on January 9, 2012 | No CommentsThese comments were written on the occasion of Janet Malcolm’s show of collages, now on exhibition at Lori Bookstein Fine Art VERY WELL THEN. Let us turn our attention to the question of fiction....
