Business as an Artist
“Everything human is my business as an artist.”
—Lucille Clifton
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A Welsch of Notes
- Notes on writing, notebooks, otherness, the spy life & Harriet M. Welsch style -
A scrapbook ode to 'Harriet the Spy' by Louise Fitzhugh and the 1996 film adaptation
A scrapbook ode to 'Harriet the Spy' by Louise Fitzhugh and the 1996 film adaptation
Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for daysit trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation,
dimming in the undertow of language.—John Burnside, lines taken from “‘Like me, you sometimes waken’” in Common Knowledge (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
On typewriters and their status as an art medium…
‘You are an artist’, by Cheryl Lowry and posted on her blog Strikethru.
awesome embroidery.
Here’s another literary lady that I love, Harriet the Spy.
Sorry, but I can’t remember what it was that I was watching (probably something dry and British) or when this was finished because I have been beyond slammed lately.
The San Francisco Public Library Typewriter Room
Can you believe it? They actually have a room dedicated to a typewriter…
(via goodmailday)
(via Life in a Typewriter Shop: Here We Go Again!)
I have this exact model, and the term ‘portable’ is ironic (though no doubt it was a dream to carry compared to previous designs back then)…
Jonathan Franzen and Harriet the Spy
Here’s a link to a recent radio program that focuses on ‘three famous Harriets’ - one of whom is rightly Harriet M. Welsch. Interestingly, the presenter Colin McEnroe comments that while attending a panel discussion, he asked the authors featured what book had influenced their desire to become a writer during childhood. Regarding Jonathan Franzen, the American writer and author of The Corrections: ‘His answer was Harriet the Spy… It’s not really what you expect Jonathan Franzen to say… He talked about how, in many respects, it made him want to be a writer…Well, first of all he said he now lives on the Upper East Side and he thinks it’s because he was so shaped by Harriet the Spy and that’s where she lived and did all of her spying…’
“Time for my cake, for my cake and milk, time for my milk and cake.” - page 35, excerpt from Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
A post at Serious Eats inspired by the culinary fixtures of Harriet the Spy. I have always thought Harriet’s daily ritual of afternoon cake and milk very civilized, and something I’d like to establish for myself!
