You know what’s beautiful? Squatters in a squat getting their lives organized. Grateful to @SophieHaigney & @parisreview for publishing this today (book coming soon)
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For this week's @ftweekend I reviewed Precarious Lease by Jacqueline Feldman from @FitzcarraldoEds - a brilliant and important book that got me fired up about housing, writing, living... https://t.co/RZLBBpfItd
I look at this and think, that “either” needs to be “whether,” “achieved” perhaps “arranged”; “horribly” might have been cut. Thank god for Claire Foster
"'Precarious Lease' takes in everyone, and is gracious and radical in its vision. It is a stunning work of witness." @claireloufoster reviews Jacqueline Feldman's book about Paris's artistic squat scene, "Precarious Lease." https://t.co/TqO90sq19e
🌊🏠STRANGE BEACH by Oluwaseun Olayiwola and PRECARIOUS LEASE by Jacqueline Feldman both publish today. Read excerpts on our website: https://t.co/FhlSExIKJ4
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'Opening a squat isn't a very highly collective activity, even if it's better done as a team or small group – it was living together as two hundred people within the squat that made the greatest demands.'
Julia Steiner interviews @jacquefeld: https://t.co/OvnzngHEfs
@Greg_Gerke I’ve only read a little of The Passenger but so far I like the sister… I do think that a lot of male writers aren’t able to write characters who don’t sound like them, doing so is undervalued in the way of a lot of feminized labor. For sure “seriousness” is not very descriptive
Read this excerpt from PRECARIOUS LEASE, a work of reportage on a Parisian squat by one of my favorite contemporary writers @jacquefeld. We worked together on an early draft, extraordinary even then, and I'm thrilled to see that it will be published by FE.
'The beauty of Le Bloc was not that it took in everyone but that it took in anyone; one of its failures was that it could not take in everyone.' Read an essay adapted from an excerpt of PRECARIOUS LEASE by Jacqueline Feldman (January 2025) in @parisreview: https://t.co/X1NdkDbAkZ
“Myths of Paris came to roost at Le Bloc as they did at other squats, as if squats were the city’s unconscious.”
@jacquefeld’s account of a squat in Paris. https://t.co/qW1XzJQdIC
Monumental essay (reportage, excerpt) from the new book by @jacquefeld . I'll read everything she writes, and, luckily, there's gonna be a lot
https://t.co/XxyyjC1CtG