For this installment of OpenBook, we spoke with EmilyWells about her memoir 'A Matter of Appearance,' a moving account of the author’s struggle with chronic illness and the physical and psychological demands of ballet.
, which is a phenomenal academic text which examines dance’s relationship to symptomatology and the history of hysteria.
When I came around to writing in the first person and sold the book as a memoir, I wrote a great deal about the life of another woman, an 1800s hysteria patient who captivated me as I learned to live with a debilitating illness. I was less concerned with either of our stories than the larger context in which we recognize them. To this end, Julia Kristeva’swas invaluable to me.
Which, or whose, canon? Is it really the worthy who determine which objects are worthy of our continued attention? Perhaps a figure not to be lost to history will suffice: I’m writing a biographical sketch for an upcoming book on Dorothy Dean, an overlooked, complicated Black socialite and writer associated with the Warhol Factory scene. If you’ve read anything about her, it was likely in the second chapter of
by Hilton Als. The upcoming book will feature some of her writing, essays about her, and her correspondence with figures likeÉditions 1989, a fantastic new publishing house in Paris founded by Anaïs Ngbanzo.I’ll stick to recommendations on the east side of LA, since that’s my stomping ground:
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