![]() I’m pregnant so I’ve been reading a lot of books about babies recently which has made me double think about a lot of feminism and how much harder it needs to work. My new plan to get through lockdown is to try and watch as many Penelope Cruz films in Spanish as possible, starting with Everybody Knows which feels wonderfully true on small town relationships. Gazelle Twin’s album Pastoral has kept me company for many grumpy walks and feels particularly relevant at the moment. Literary Friction’s interview with Mary Gaitskill has been on my mind as well as an older article by Rachel Cusk about the artists Celia Paul and Cecily Brown. Other books in the pile to read are A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux and Poor by Caleb Femi. ![]() I’m revisiting some for a current project including Self-Portrait by Celia Paul and the Edmond Gordon Angela Carter biography. ![]() ![]() My bedside table is an explosion of books. ![]() In this episode of OurShelves Lucy Scholes interviews Daisy Johnson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Fen, Everything Under and Sisters, on rewriting the haunted house, why women are expected to use personal lives in fiction, and how books on motherhood are creating a feminist conversation. How do you balance motherhood and creativity? ![]()
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