Virginia Hartley

not entirely here

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

I don’t play my violin but I did write about it for the new @TheDublinReview

[The Dublin Review @TheDublinReview]

NUMBER 92 | AUTUMN 2023 features new work by Virginia Hartley, Tim MacGabhann, Róisín Lanigan, William Keohane, Maggie Armstrong, Rob Doyle, and Jamie Stedmond. To buy/subscribe 👇
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OUT NOW! NUMBER 92 | AUTUMN 2023 contains new work by William Keohane, Tim MacGabhann, Maggie Armstrong, Róisín Lanigan, Virginia Hartley, Jamie Stedmond, and Rob Doyle. Buy /Subscribe 👇
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COMING SOON: The autumn Dublin Review contains more of the best new writing from Ireland and elsewhere: essays, reportage, memoir and fiction. NUMBER 92 includes: William Keohane, Tim MacGabhann, Rob Doyle, Maggie Armstrong, Róisín Lanigan, Virginia Hartley, and Jamie Stedmond.

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

@soratcli Thomas Bernhard! Everything perhaps but most, Concrete

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

@leo_sheek the colder I get the more I have the thought, ok I must surely be about to get a cold now, and yet it may be that even the germs are like, no too cold for us in there

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

@hiharveen @vittlesmagazine agreed - think what I meant was destruction can be creative (in the same way that emptying the plate makes it possible for it to be filled up again) when it is part of a process, but that (critical) process isn't always there

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

If food is art then eating it becomes (imo) a destructive act. I wrote about why this disturbs me for @vittlesmagazine

[Vittles @vittlesmagazine]

“When we say food is art, we are in danger: for many years, this was how I convinced myself it was OK not to eat”

In today’s newsletter, @virbiage examines the potential harm that fruit and vegetable brands cause when they insist their produce is art.

https://t.co/CUM5nm1pjA

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

@rebeccamjohnson wields edits like a perfectly sharpened, Japanese paring knife. A delight (for me and the words)!

[Cordelia Jenkins @CordeliaJ]

Really clever and thoughtful piece on ways of seeing lunch…

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

This is not to say that what is disturbing about this can’t also be creative: this is what makes food not just food, why we keep coming back for it

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

Also, how I experience tomato in green salad as a kind of betrayal; this is not, christmas

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

Just the words ‘palest greens’ gives me the sensation (silky/shivery) of what it might be like, say, to be a slice of cucumber

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

I think food diaries can be many things (what does a food diary even mean; in the same way as food writing vs just writing?) but I was interested specifically in the diary as a treatment tool for sickness/unhealth

[Virginia Hartley @virbiage]

I love reading diaries, less so writing them; ‘food diaries’ may be the strangest of them all. I wrote about my relationship with them for @ExploreWellcome