#books— scroll down for the bit about Alia Hanna Habib
“This she managed by taking on clients early in their careers and convincing publishers to trust her taste. Sometimes on the basis of just one excellent article or small-press book, Habib started turning semi-unknowns into household names, like Clint Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, Merve Emre (whom Habib has represented since her essay on female sociopaths was published on Digg)…”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-york-inside-power-list.html
“The show’s creators, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, have said that my character is a blend of Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Lawrence of Arabia. And yet, in the weeks after we finished shooting the first season, despite all the looming excitement of a publicity campaign and the series première, I hardly felt like a conquering spirit. I was terrified. Terrified of the attention, terrified of a business I barely understood, terrified of trying to make good on the faith that the creators of “Thrones” had put in me. I felt, in every way, exposed. In the very first episode, I appeared naked, and, from that first press junket onward, I always got the same question: some variation of “You play such a strong woman, and yet you take off your clothes. Why?” In my head, I’d respond, “How many men do I need to kill to prove myself?” A Battle for My Life https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones
I’m a huge fan of her work! 🎉🎂
“The show’s creators, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, have said that my character is a blend of Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Lawrence of Arabia. And yet, in the weeks after we finished shooting the first season, despite all the looming excitement of a publicity campaign and the series première, I hardly felt like a conquering spirit. I was terrified. Terrified of the attention, terrified of a business I barely understood, terrified of trying to make good on the faith that the creators of “Thrones” had put in me. I felt, in every way, exposed. In the very first episode, I appeared naked, and, from that first press junket onward, I always got the same question: some variation of “You play such a strong woman, and yet you take off your clothes. Why?” In my head, I’d respond, “How many men do I need to kill to prove myself?” A Battle for My Life https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones
Happy Birthday Emilia Clarke— love this movie clip from Last Christmas: #movies
yes— agreed. that’s why stories need told— because it’s a reality.
Morning— on to my next audible 🐎 🎧https://www.audible.com/pd/B0036MQ89Q?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow
“Like a Gorgon in an autumn pool…”
so much beautiful prose #CormacMcCarthy
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0036MQ89Q?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow
Morning— on to my next audible 🐎 🎧https://www.audible.com/pd/B0036MQ89Q?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow
Ono Tadashige
Flower of Wind, Moscow
https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/391d7093-2dca-48e6-a60d-05f3348ea118
And… new prints at the Museum #art 
beautiful weather in #Pittsburgh today ☀️🍁 
Purchased some used #books today— I’ve been meaning to add these to my collection. 
thank you for this… “the paradoxes of cancel culture” — as he stated
Fiction of course— but due to current events elsewhere— I was thinking of a few pieces I read over the years about Camus, Sartre, & Simone de Beauvoir
and the conflict in Algeria during their lifetime. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/07/243536815/on-his-100th-birthday-camus-algerian-ties-still-controversial