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Laurie Stone Dottir Press , 2022 - Biography & Autobiography - 200 pages Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a collection of hybrid feminist narratives that perfectly captures the many paradoxes of the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting the seemingly never-ended public catastrophes we experienced as a collective with the ...
Laurie Stone. Laurie Stone is author of six books, most recently "Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening," longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. She writes the Substack "Everything is Personal.”. The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.
As Stone says, It’s good this narrative has been broken. In the narrative that has been broken, people ignored the way so many things they wanted required the suffering of others. In a time when most of us felt more alone than ever before, Laurie Stone's Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a retroactive but no less ...
Biography. Stone is a graduate of Barnard College (1968) and holds an MA from Columbia University (1969). She taught at Hunter College and Queens College from 1969 to 1975. After many years as a journalist at The Village Voice (1974–1999), she was appointed theater critic for The Nation and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air.
Oct 23, 2017 · by Laurie Stone. I am sitting beside a fountain off Broadway, designed like a waterfall. The sound of rushing water softens the heat. The buttery smell of pastries floats up from a nearby bakery. I sat here twenty-five years ago, reading “London Fields,” when the man I loved was dying. Today I missed my sister.
Jan 1, 2020 · Paperback – January 1, 2020. Everything is Personal, Notes on Now is a collage of hybrid narratives that begin with the stunning events of November 2016 and challenge Stone to feel good when everything is bad. Freely jumping between social commentary, criticism, memoir, and fiction, the pieces are constructed the way dreams and films are ...
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Apr 29, 2022 · Laurie Stone’s strange and otherworldly postcards are captivating, erudite, and moving. What is particularly startling is when you realize that the strange place she is writing from is the heart. We should all make such a trip and, thankfully, now we have this beautiful book as a guide.
