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susanstinson) wrote2003-11-15 10:16 am
susanstinson) wrote2003-11-15 10:16 am
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Alison Bechdel
Her newest book, just out, is Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For. And she just said something I find utterly beautiful about my Venus of Chalk -- beyond beautiful, all the way to it makes me gasp and cry that she actually said that. She absolutely nailed what I was trying -- in my wildest dreams -- to do. Feels soooo gooood:
This neatly-stitched tale of a latter-day home economist’s “glaring departures from sensible living” is a religious experience. Under Susan Stinson’s microscopic needlework, the fabric of the phenomenal world shimmers with sublime beauty. A can of baking soda, a traffic pylon, a city bus -- these things will never look the same again. Stinson lavishes the same minute reverence on her human subjects, discovering rich, sacramental meaning in their most banal small talk. This book unravels what you think you know about women and men, the freakish and the normal, shame and salvation -- then mends it anew into a most surprising story.
Alison Bechdel
This neatly-stitched tale of a latter-day home economist’s “glaring departures from sensible living” is a religious experience. Under Susan Stinson’s microscopic needlework, the fabric of the phenomenal world shimmers with sublime beauty. A can of baking soda, a traffic pylon, a city bus -- these things will never look the same again. Stinson lavishes the same minute reverence on her human subjects, discovering rich, sacramental meaning in their most banal small talk. This book unravels what you think you know about women and men, the freakish and the normal, shame and salvation -- then mends it anew into a most surprising story.
Alison Bechdel
Re: Wow!!!