Heitham El-Wardany —
How to disappear
Publication created during a workshop by EPS51
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No one will know the violence it took to become this gentle.
You all have no idea how powerful and real this statement is for me.
Some Favorite Essays, Short Stories, Novels
Essays:
1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa
2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry
3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering
4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek
5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
- Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays
6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora
7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector
8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect
9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist?
10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud
11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love
12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering
13. Albert Henrichs -
Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus
Short Stories:
1. Clarice Lispector - Love
2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1
3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress
4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water
5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet
6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went
7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things
8.
Kirstin Valdez Quade -
Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)
9. Clarice Lispector - One Day Less
Novels:
1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata
2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities
3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite)
4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link)
5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter
6. Clarice Lispector -
AGUA VIVA (my favorite)
Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E
what an awful way to end an already very shitty year
“Love. Love everything from the grass to the first person who walks by in the street. Love it all. That’s the only thing that can make life not just bearable, but beautiful.”
— Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,”