[Book Nerd Links] Natalia Ginzburg, Colette, Dr. John, the Seventies, Judith Kerr, Etc.

Posted on June 21, 2019 by maedez

Natalia Ginzburg, the Last Woman Left on Earth [THE PARIS REVIEW]
The Postmenopausal Novel [THE PARIS REVIEW]
Farewell to Dr. John, Wherever You Is Now [THE PARIS REVIEW]
A Pop Culture Photographer’s Epic Journey Through ‘The Seventies’ [FLAVORWIRE]
Judith Kerr, Author Of ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea,’ Dead at 95 [HUFFPOST BOOKS]
The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction [LITERARY HUB]

Colette and Pets

Posted on November 23, 2015 by maedez

Colette in 1932

Posted on February 6, 2015 by maedez

Colette by Jacques Humbert, circa 1896

Posted on June 5, 2013 by maedez

“There are no ordinary cats.”-Colette

Zig Zig (aka Miss Zizi Jeanmaire) agrees.

ZigZig

Posted on January 16, 2012 by maedez

Title: Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette
Author: Judith Thurman
Year Published: 1999 (The Ballantine Publishing Company)
Year Purchased: 2005/2006
Source: Barnes & Noble clearance rack
About: This perceptive, well researched biography of the great French writer and sensualist is the one to top.
Motivation: Colette was intelligent, talented, witty, complex , contradictory, fluid and far ahead of her time. Perhaps best of all, she was never boring.
Times Read: 2
Random Excerpt/Page 215: “Colette herself thought it “worth remarking” that the intimate friends of her years as a vagabond, “the true and faithful ones,” were all “luckless and irremediably sad.” She considered that it might be “the solidarity of unhappiness that unites us” but decided that it wasn’t. She “attracted and retained the depressives, the solitaires,” she reasoned, because they were simply fellow misfits, unencumbered by families or convention, and “dedicated to a life of seclusion or wandering, as I am.”
Happiness Scale: 9 1/2
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