Martha French

Literary scout

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Every April, for the past 12 years, we have celebrated New York Magazine’s anniversary (it’s our 55th) with a “Yesteryear” issue. This year’s looks back at a particular New York phenomenon, the “It” girl.

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[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

The friendship between Joan Didion and Even Babitz was fraught and unlikely, but one is not understood without the other. https://t.co/nc2Qsk7ajR

[Erica Berry @ericajberry]

This Natalia Ginzburg sentence, nested in an essay, is almost a short story

[Sophie Haigney @SophieHaigney]

🚨This summer, Sheila Heti began talking to a chatbot named Eliza about God, art, and consciousness, before things took some strange turns. This week, we're publishing a new work that came out of these conversations in five parts (they are amazing)

https://t.co/UNC10QXvO7

[mjm @matthewjmclean]

One of the many passages of Hilary Mantel that will never leave. ‘All houses are haunted.’ RIP.

[Prof Folúkẹ́ Adébísí @folukeifejola]

Hilary Mantel about facts, history, and the past. RIP.

[Rachel B Glaser @Candle_Face]

i’ve shared this before maybe but it’s so good I’ve got to share it again

[anna kate blair @annakblair]

Sheila Heti asks Caren Beilin about the purpose of studying literature, writing and reading:

[Alexandra Schwartz @Alex_Lily]

Sally Rooney writing in 2018 on the Irish abortion ban. "Consent, in the form of a donor card, is required even to remove organs from a dead body.... In the relationship between fetus and woman, the woman is granted fewer rights than a corpse."
https://t.co/Z72iFfTWGT

[emma @emmatranter_]

if you don't know the story it's mentioned in the New Yorker profile of her from 2018! https://t.co/aKl4itslt1

[Bess Kalb @bessbell]

Whatever we say Joan Didion will outlive every single one of us. Imagine making such an indelible contribution to the canon while being so cool. We are so lucky she committed her thoughts to paper and we get to read them. Everything I do is trying to imitate her. Joan forever.

[Parul Sehgal @parul_sehgal]

A fifth-generation Californian, she once said: “Don’t you think people are formed by the landscape they grew up in?” She was our landscape. My appraisal of Didion https://t.co/kidiaO9BoC

[Anna Merlan @annamerlan]

Everyone wanted to write like her, and no one did.

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

A life in quotes: bell hooks https://t.co/KnVo3so5lw

[James B @piercepenniless]

Back the the @britishlibrary today for first time since the plague. Was unprepared to be emotional about it. It is an unalloyed good that a library of international significance is open to everyone in the country, for free.

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

“So that is poetry really loving the name of anything”
from Gertrude Stein's lecture 'Poetry and Grammar' #mondaymotivation #LGBTHM21

[The Sound of Music @SoundofMusic]

We're saddened to hear of Christopher Plummer’s passing. His legacy as our Captain will live on in THE SOUND OF MUSIC forever. Our thoughts are with his loved ones during this time.♥️