Jules DiGregorio > Recent Status Updates

Electric book launch at Steppenwolf tonight with readings from Maggie and co. Honored to be behind the table with Claire. Can’t wait to devour this

Decided to read Male Fantasies until I fell asleep, bad idea. Changed gears to Song of Solomon and God laughed. Was up until 2am. So awesome. Kind of tired though..

Started flipping through this again for inspiration and now I'm fully rereading and feeling so excited all over about it

Unbelievably good I have to take notes. Currently rereading via audiobook while I paint the studio. PJ's pov makes me want to cry. Can someone please let him tell them about what he saw in the forest today

"...and now more than ever she was active in sketching her landscapes and market-carts and portraits of friends, in practising her music, and in being from morning till night her own standard of a perfect lady, having always an audience in her own consciousness, with sometimes the not unwelcome addition of a more variable external audience in the numerous visitors of the house."

My first Ibsen, been wanting to read since we talked about him in Ulysses

My mother said they listened to this on tape while driving between Palm Springs and LA during the fires. I said I should probably read that when I'm older, hmm. She sent me a copy so I am reading it now.

If this ends in a heterosexual romance I swear to god…..

Puts me into a mood only previously experienced while reading some complicated and fascinating article/chapter for class. Except now I'm out of school and I can spend as long as I'd like with the text. And also it's 544 pages and not a 30pg excerpt of a larger and more complicated work grounded on context that is entirely foreign to me. I'm excited!!

Caroline Walker Bynum is fast becoming a major intellectual crush...

I know it's bc there's only 5 reviews but the 2.8 rating is an injustice! Really enjoying it so far, esp. the dig at scrappy artist "outsiders" and their handycam footage that is not-so-secretly destined for the Whitney. A trope I laugh at and aspire to!

“ All I know is that while the Haze woman and I went down the steps into the breathless garden, my knees were like reflections of knees in rippling water, and my lips were like sand, and—
‘That was my Lo,’ she said, ‘and these are my lilies.’
‘Yes,’ I said, ‘yes. They are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!’ “

"there's a decision: to die,
or to live, to go on
caring about something. In spring, in Ohio,
in the forests that are left you can still find
sign of him: patches
of cold white fire."

Picked up on a whim at B&N, the topic is well covered in books & articles but skimming the chapter titles I was intrigued. Media consumption/focus is something I’ve been really struggling with and so far this book has been very validating and helpful. Good advice but emphasizes that this is a systemic issue, not individual