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I really enjoyed a short story "Mrs. Hopper is Waving Her Arms" by Alice Jolly in her collection From Far Around They Saw Us Burn. It imagined the life of Josephine Nivison who sublimated her own art in order to support Edward Hopper. I wonder if any of the stories in this other collection talk about her?

Alan (the Lone Librarian on semi-hiatus)) wrote: "I really enjoyed a short story "Mrs. Hopper is Waving Her Arms" by Alice Jolly in her collection From Far Around They Saw Us Burn. It imagined the life of Josephine Nivison who subl..."

Yes, there is one, but it is a not exactly a story. It was written by the original curator of Hopper's works for the Whitney Museum. Mrs Hopper figures into that piece a bit.

None of the stories in this anthology deal with Hopper at all (except that one), or none have yet. They are all fictional takes on the images in particular paintings, not on the artist or his life.

Oh PS, Ian left another request for the Lone Librarian. Don't know if you've seen it or not. 👍

So glad you're enjoying the Hopper montage of stories, B. This one's high on my tbr and I'm hoping to put my hands on a hard copy soon!
Were you able to get hold of a physical copy🧚‍♀️🙋🏼?

Valerie Book Valkyrie wrote: "So glad you're enjoying the Hopper montage of stories, B. This one's high on my tbr and I'm hoping to put my hands on a hard copy soon!
Were you able to get hold of a physical copy🧚‍♀️🙋🏼?"

Yes, I was alerted to it through your adding it to your TBR. Thank you! Great find.

I'm reading a digital copy that includes images of the paintings, not a hard copy. You can't really read this without them!

The trick with this anthology, I think, is to view the story in conjunction with the painting. If you try to judge the story alone, many of them aren't going to rank too highly. They need the context. That seems to me to be the point of this book project from Block: visual + text.

I think a number of reviewers missed that and read this anthology like they would any other. Which has led to an overall rating that I don't think matches the quality of the contributions nor the idea.

Thank you for revealing the key to deriving the most satisfaction from this read, Berengaria! What a shortcoming that the paper copy neglected to include prints of the relevant paintings, seems like a grave omission! Given the context of the stories, and the driving motive for reading them, I made the false assumption that the paper copy included prints of the paintings.
Would you be willing to provide the link to the digital copy that you're reading?

Valerie Book Valkyrie wrote: "Thank you for revealing the key to deriving the most satisfaction from this read, Berengaria! What a shortcoming that the paper copy neglected to include prints of the relevant paintings, seems lik..."

Oh! I didn't mean to say a paper copy didn't! I haven't seen one to know. I meant that I am reading a digital copy which DOES include the paintings, because often you'll find e-books in online formats that don't include pictures/photos/plates the print copy does. That's what I meant.

But if you can't get a hold of a print copy, go on Welib dot org and search for the title. They have numerous copies you can read for free. 👍

Thanks Berengaria 💛🧚‍♀️🙋🏼!