“Would I have carried myself with the same swagger, or faced adversity with such feminine resolve, without Albertine as my guide?…I was drawn to a striking, remote face—rendered violet on black—on a dust jacket proclaiming its author ‘a female Genet.’” Patti Smith’s favorite little-known book.
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"We breathe in presuppositions and exhale further stories."
—Dante translated by Robert Pinsky, Poetry, April 2007
It’s publication day for Dan Brown’s Inferno, according to the Los Angeles Times. Will you read it? Or Clive James’s? Or neither?
She ran and ran and ended up right back where she’d started again.
