"In 1987, Andrea Dworkin wrote of Wuthering Heights that 'we have not yet faced what Emily Brontë knew & said & showed' about the relationship between race, gender, sadism, power, & justice. Fennell’s WH makes it clear that we are still not willing to go and look." lithub.com/emerald-fenn...
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Watching LOVE STORY? Here's a piece I wrote about Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's clothes, the bizarre ritual of dressing for public consumption, and the tyranny of personal style, for my newsletter raquellaneri.substack.com/p/what-do-ca...
This news abt the Washington Post makes my blood boil. While the newsroom prepared to lose A THIRD of its staff, Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sanchez were at Paris couture week, shopping for million-dollar gowns. Wrote abt that & fashion's relationship w/ evil here raquellaneri.substack.com/p/bad-clothe...
I have thought about the extraordinary A FLOWER TRAVELED IN MY BLOOD basically every day since I read it this summer. It's about grandmothers who stood up to Argentina's fascist government & fought to find the grandchildren who were stolen from them. Read it raquellaneri.substack.com/p/the-argent...
I should add that the only reason I know grammar is that my mom sent me to a Catholic school when I was little, where the teachers made us diagram sentences. (I really liked diagraming sentences — one of the only things I did like about Catholic school!)
I think people see it elsewhere and then copy it, because they presume it's right & because it does indeed look fancy. People don't learn grammar anymore. Actually, people my age didn't learn grammar either, but many of us still had teachers/editors who corrected grammar — not anymore.
Also: as a former copyeditor, the hyphenated adverb-adjective DRIVES ME INSANE. It is truly an epidemic!!!!! I've actually had editors PUT IT INTO my copy!!!! Revolting!
I came here b/c I wanted to thank you for your Brontë family biography. I just started rereading WUTHERING HEIGHTS (it's been about 2 decades!) & was craving some supplemental stuff about Emily. HER MIND!!! (I also have Gaskell's Charlotte bio, tho understand it's not entirely trustworthy?)
Garish colors, tacky lace, flamboyant muscle tees and hairy trompe l'oeil bodysuits ... why is fashion so hideous right now, and is there a way to dress with dignity as the world around us collapses? raquellaneri.substack.com/p/ugly-cloth...
So fun!!!
A portrait of hot woman wearing a kitschy patchwork sweater done by Polish painter Paulina Olowska. The text reads: Does fashion matter?
I have been thinking about how pointless getting dressed & thinking about clothes feels right now, with *gestures wildly* ALL THIS. But then I saw this painting of an 80s babe wearing a kitschy sweater and ... wrote this raquellaneri.substack.com/p/does-fashi...
Robert Redford, 1936-2025
📷 John Dominus, 1969
NO ONE wore a coat like Robert Redford!
Has anyone ever worn a movie costume better than Robert Redford in his navy pea coat in Three Days of the Condor?
I just went to Instagram to post this pea coat (and the shearling one he wore in DOWNHILL RACER, which is a close second)! Third place: Robert Redford in a leather jacket in Spy Game. Or Robert Redford in a trench in a half dozen other movies ... The man knew how to wear coats!
“It’s not just about the cake,” she says. “A good partner doesn’t take a special moment and make you look stupid.” www.thecut.com/article/groo...
This biography of Amelia Earhart was complex, scintillating and delicious. Loved it!
he Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made and America Icon in a fine story by
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in the New York Post
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- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
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“he wrote: “I thought it was quite normal to take a break from writing at two in the morning, saunter down to the piers, and have sex with 20 men in a truck”
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
There are so many ways in which Edmund White was remarkable. I want to point out two. The first is that he wrote about sex more, and more avidly and explicitly, than any other major gay writer. It was core to his identity. He left nothing out. He dared you to flinch at it. (I flinched many times.) >
Fascinating, probing, beautifully written piece (I did not know that the term "closet" came from Confidential Magazine!) that also has new photos by THE GREAT 93-year-old(!!) legend Duane Michals?!?!?!?!?!!!!
Oooh!!! Debussy is great!!! More ambient than Bach so might do the trick. Thanks!
Thank you!!!
I'm grading papers and I need some music recs!!! Bach OBVIOUSLY is best for writing, but feel like it's not hitting the spot right now!
Wow. Obviously this person knows nothing of your work ... I just finished reading your beautiful piece in NY Magazine about the "list keepers" (v behind on my magazines) and found it so beautiful, insightful, vital — like everything you write, and everything you write about queer culture.
RIP Pope Francis, the public servant who drove Vatican tailors crazy with his 'papal athleisure' (Plus: "The Two Popes" costumes and the history of papal vestments) raquellaneri.substack.com/p/rip-pope-f...
Interesting article ... have been thinking a lot about language & identity as I am attempting to raise my child bilingual ... and also allowing myself to speak Spanish "imperfectly" (whatever that even means) www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/24/p...
THE GATES, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental public art project in Central Park, opened 20 years ago. These two superfans obsessively documented the installation as it morphed and changed through its 16-day run. I talked with them about it: raquellaneri.substack.com/p/i-have-bee...
Daughter is very glad "the cat movie" aka FLOW won. (I am as well!)
