Against ‘Women’s Writing’ — Andrea Long Chu review.
Here is another review for the group…
Thank you all for your comments about #rachelcusktogether along the way — truly the only reason I stayed with the trilogy. Looking forward to our next read together!
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Thank you for (once again) leading us. I believe I’m done with Rachel Cusk’s writing, but I so enjoyed the postings from everyone reading along.
last week of #rachelcusktogether !
thank you all for reading along with me.
two more weeks #rachelcusktogether remain!
week 17 starts tomorrow!
week 16 of #rachelcusktogether
starts tomorrow!
I’d be so angry in Faye’s place. That was not an interview. In such a situation I might tell the interviewer I’d be happy to reschedule, or ask her to send me her questions, since she needs to leave before the interview even begins.
week 15 of #rachelcusktogether starts tmw!
The gift of a night out cannot be slept on. How about grabbing tickets to see literary superstars Karl Ove Knausgaard and Rachel Kushner in-conversation? Tickets include a copy of the book!
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W.S. Merwin with a beautiful
poem for the day that it is.
week 14 of
#rachelcusktogether
starts tomorrow!
happy new year almost!
…and Ilya Gridneff
Such a great novel. Have you read Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt? It’s on my short stack to start soon.
3 days off and then we start the last volume of #rachelcusktogether !
Thank you, as always, for leading us!
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to @wired.com's @mollytaft.com and @capitalandmain.bsky.social's @aaroncantu.bsky.social about what data center growth means for the environment — and for ratepayers — and how we're responding.
❓Have you been impacted by data center growth? What are your concerns?
📻 Listen:
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to journalist, José "Caya" Cayasso, immigration law historian, Dr. Yael Schacher, immigration attorney, Nicole Gorney, and Russian whistleblower, German, about third-country removals.
❓What questions do you have about these deportation policies?
📻 Listen:
I agree, all perspectives are certainly limited and biased, and there can be an overlap with narcissism and PTSD, but we don’t know enough about Faye yet to understand. Objectively, I see her telling other people’s stories from her limited perspective — what drives her to do this we don’t yet know.
I didn’t know that existed. I’ve bookmarked it to listen to when we are done reading. Thank you!
Ooh, thank you! I will save for when we are done with these three books.
The way she is controlling all of these stories; the way we understand them are only through Faye’s (judgmental and limited) perspective. I’m beginning to think that if we heard the perspectives of the people she ‘lays bare’ we might realize Faye is the actual problem.
I don’t even find it dark so much as unbelievable. The stories are too excessive (exaggerated?) and I find our narrator untrustworthy and manipulative. We’ll see where she is going with all of this, if there is a way she will pull all this together or just drive us off the cliff with her. 😅
Or, she’s a cold, controlling narcissist. 🤷♀️
It would be so unnatural, and most likely unreliable, as too much could be taken out of context. Perhaps we are getting to the core of our narrator?
I’m having such a hard time with this book and these stories.
week 12 of #rachelcusktogether
starts tomorrow!
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to @corinnepurtill.bsky.social, Lisa Morgan, @drjessicaphd.bsky.social and Neal Tricarico about advances in suicide prevention in autistic and neurodivergent people.
❓Are you autistic or neurodivergent? Is a loved one? Is what you’re hearing resonating?
📻 Listen:
