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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️

@joiedevivre9.bsky.social

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avid reader w/focus on womxn writers • virgo sun sagittarius moon • my library is an archive of longings • feminist #NYRBWomen25 #AContinuation25 Pacific Coast • joiedevivre9.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 6d

#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz starts tomorrow! Here's the page guide. 🎉🎉

Cover of I USED TO BE CHARMING by Eve Babitz (NYRB Classics).

Page guide for I USED TO BE CHARMING by Eve Babitz (NYRB Classics). #NYRBWomen25

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 17h

#NYRBWomen25 “Anyway, I bet the people having lunch every day at the Algonquin back in the years when they were all so witty and brilliant looked back eventually and thought of it all as one lunch.” (p109) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonqu...

Members and associates of the Algonquin Round Table ca. 1919: (standing, left to right) Art Samuels and Harpo Marx; (sitting) Charles MacArthur, Dorothy Parker, and Alexander Woollcott

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 17h

#NYRBWomen25 “That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise” (p107) From our last Babitz… bsky.app/profile/joie...

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · Nov 20

#NYRBWomen24 "before Babitz was a published writer...she was a visual artist, and her chosen medium was collage...she created the iconic album cover art for Buffalo Springfield’s Buffalo Springfield Again and The Byrds’ Untitled, among others." huntington.org/verso/eve-ba...

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 17h

#NYRBWomen25 “In 1961 or so, Weston opened what he called the Troubadour II on Santa Monica & Doheny. It was a kind of beatnik place, a folk club seating about 300 people, where Odetta or Peter, Paul and Mary would play acoustic sets.” (p105) It’s still there today! troubadour.com/history/

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“Behold me now just as I am, Colette once said in a beautiful piece about how she was in her early 30s (my age) & alone, living in a one-room apartment on the first floor, a Parisian room near the Bois de Boulogne. Beholding herself in the mirror, just as she was.” (p91) #NYRBWomen25

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“Once you’re on Orange Grove, you’re on your own and you should forget the map, time, and how you’re going to get back. Just find a street to wander […] and go look at the Gamble House and see if it’s open.” (p52) #NYRBWomen25 gamblehouse.org

“The Gamble House was built in 1908 for a rich Cincinnati family (part of Procter & Gamble) as a winter house. It was designed by the Greene Brothers…” (p52)

“The inside of the house is mostly made of polished teak, carved by one of the Greene Brothers in a pattern called the ‘cloud design.’ … The windows, lamps, and even the rug designs are by Tiffany” (p52)

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“…and all at once you’ll be right there at around the time Humphrey Bogart drove a ‘38 Plymouth (poetic license; I don’t know what he drove).” (p51) 😂😂

“…the fact that mountains & hills come so close down to the main streets. I always find it heartbreakingly unselfconscious.” (p52)
#NYRBWomen25

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the best, most secret Raymond-Chandler-things-to-do in Los Angeles is something I discovered quite by accident when I went through a period of being unable to ‘go on the freeway.’ […] I was suffering from the Freeway Sorrows” (p50) #NYRBWomen25

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

#NYRBWomen25 From this weekend’s Eve Babitz pages...

“Mozart wasn’t being too funny when he said the most important, *important*, part of music was ‘the rest,’ the silence. What they cut out. […] What is inessential must be cut away and what remains must convince us it’s essential” (p31,36)

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles. la.curbed.com/maps/los-ang...

Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles

Take a tour of the writer’s sexy, smoggy city of the 1960s and ’70s.

la.curbed.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

Same, friend, same.

a stack of books with the words i want to read all the books

ALT: a stack of books with the words i want to read all the books

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 1d

One week to go! @kaggsy59.bsky.social

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

This tender portrait of the artist Vanessa Bell was painted by Roger Fry around 1912. They had begun an affair in 1911 which lasted until the following year when Bell fell in love with Duncan Grant. This might have been painted at Fry's house, Durbins, Guildford in Surrey.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

We couldn't fit this one into our film fest agenda so hopefully we'll still be able to see it in the theatre.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

I've been surprised by his humor as much as I was surprised by Barthes'. Such a joy!

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 4d

“I read through everything I wrote and I feel very disappointed. But what can I do. I wrote it. It’s there.”
– Chantal Akerman

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

If only it were that easy!

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

Lol, yes, please!!!! What is the magic spell for that?

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

And finally, an interesting post on doll making, magic & witchcraft. "The history of doll making is a rich tapestry woven through the threads of play, spirituality, and magic." www.jungle-beauty-goddesses-museum.com/doll-making-...

Doll Making, Magick, & Witchcraft | Mysite

Doll making is an ancient practice that transcends cultures, serving various purposes from playthings to powerful symbols of spiritual beliefs. In some traditions, dolls have been closely linked with ...

www.jungle-beauty-goddesses-museum.com

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

And a departure from those images -- an engraving by Albrecht Dürer, The Four Witches (1497) -- which bluesky might actually tag so here’s a link just in case. www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

This article is also interesting about how mass-produced woodcuts helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone. publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodcu...

A woodcut: Witches presenting wax dolls to the devil, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720)

Title page of A Most Certain, Strange and True Discovery of a Witch (1643)

First woodcut in the pamphlet Newes from Scotland, as reproduced in an 1816 facsimile.

Frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins’ Discovery of Witches (1648) showing two witches calling out the names of their demons while Hopkins watches above.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

I did a bit more reading about Christian IV of Denmark (1588–1648) who introduced an ordinance ‘against witches & their accomplices’ in 1617, and about the 17th century world of witchcraft. Here’s an interesting blog post. salemwitchmuseum.com/2021/12/17/t...

The 17th Century World of Witchcraft - Salem Witch Museum

By: Jonah Hoffmann This blog series focuses on specific countries or regions of the Early Modern European world during the 17th century when scholars believe the peak period of witch...

salemwitchmuseum.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

Looking up poems also led me to this one by Sylvia Plath.

“I inhabit / The wax image of myself, a doll’s body.”

allpoetry.com/Witch-Burning

Witch Burning by Sylvia Plath - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

Comments & analysis: In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks. / A thicket of shadows is a poor coat.

allpoetry.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

...as well as the song Björnenby by Sara Parkman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS47...

Sara Parkman - Björnen [Offical music video by Palmer Lydebrant]

YouTube video by Sara Parkman

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

A few poems are obliquely referenced in THE WAX CHILD: ‘Advent’ by Gillian Clarke, ‘Detail of the Woods’ by Richard Siken, and ‘The Glass Essay’ by Anne Carson...

poemanalysis.com/gillian-clar...

poets.org/poem/detail-...

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/...

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