Eight minutes with Alison Bechdel on her motivations, insecurities, and more:
What motivates me? Deep insecurity. I do think to some extent it is an incompleteness or a neurosis on my part… [H]onestly that’s why anyone pursues any avenue of creativity — it’s because they’re trying to get something that they’re missing.
See also Bechdel’s feelings on seeing a finished copy of Fun Home for the first time (” I’m deeply pleased, but not elated, for some reason. I feel a bit like Mr. Earbrass…”), her discovery that “the actual documentary truth” recorded in the childhood journals she consulted while writing the book “was almost always richer and more surprising” than the way she remembered things happening, and her validation of your internet addiction.
Stuff I Like
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~~~~~AUTEUR SPOTLIGHT: TERRENCE MALICK~~~~~
The Many Derivations of a Single Terrence Malick Photograph from a Single...
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“The heart of psychotherapy is people talking together about things that matter.”
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Official News:
I have signed and sent the contract so I might as well tell the internet at large—I have a literary agent now, and she is Sarah...
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“’You know,’ he smiled, “If I’m not awfully careful I shall fall in love with you.’ ‘Oh, no,’ she said solemnly. ‘You mustn’t do that.’”
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On being a praise junkie
Like a lot of people, I super get off on being liked. I would rather be liked than be rich. I would rather be liked than be...
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When I lived in Edinburgh I became weirdly obsessed with visiting cemeteries: they’re beautiful there, cramped and overgrown and glorious, and the...
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Just want to remind everyone of the amazing sh*t we librarians do every day.
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Harper just acquired this lusty janitor’s next short story collection but you can find his previous collection and debut...
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“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, ...
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Received packages in the mail this week!
The first was from a service called Quarterly, a service that matches you up with influential people in...
