Carolyn jorudan autobiography of malcolm
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“Inside a små människor is a whole universum, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes bygd light shining through the cracks between the boards.”–Carolyn Jourdan, “Heart in the Right Place”
I often think about the old små människor we had growing up. Each time I see our neighbor’s old små människor across from our family farm in Louisville, it brings back memories. The old unge, like many of the places of my ungdom, is a place that I would like to see igen, if it still stands. However, as I have said before about the magical places of our youth, inom think inom would be somewhat reluctant to return to see it for fear that it would shrink.
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As inom have postulated before in my writing, the special locations of memory often seem much smaller when you go back to them igen as an adult. As Carolyn Jourdan so aptly described in her memoir, “a små människor is a whole universe” and that certainly was the c
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Wendy Welch: Books, Yarn, Cats, Opioids
Oh dear, that book list thing is circulating again, and a handful of people have challenged me.
One chapter of Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap contains a list of eleven books that influenced me. Anyone who’s done this challenge knows that narrowing to ten is hard, so rather than repeat those, here are eight books I swithered over when making that Little Bookstore list, plus a few published since then.
How many Hills to Hillsboro (Fred Bauer)– Published by Guideposts in the s, it sat on a stack of books in my father’s office one day, whence I picked it up randomly and read it….
And read it, and read it, and read it again. Hillsboro started my lifelong affair with wanderlust. I still have that original copy. (I guess my dad never realized he owned it, since I stole it at age seven.) The book is about a family of five who bicycle across most of America. They don’t make it to the California coast before the summer is over, but
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The Life & Times Of Malcolm McLaren, Punk’s Original Provocateur
Malcolm McLaren with Lauren Hutton in New York,
Photography David McGough / Getty ImagesLauren Hutton was another huge influence on McLaren. How did they meet?
“In the mid ’80s, a few years after American Gigolo, she read an interview in the LA Times with this person who said things she believed would get you arrested in Hollywood and thought, ‘Wow, I’ve got to meet this guy.’ Of course, it was Malcolm. One night she approached him in the car park of Morton’s [steakhouse in LA] with [actors] Beverly D’Angelo and John Cusack. They went for dinner and then danced the night away at a lesbian/trans bar called Peanuts on Santa Monica Blvd. Two days later, Hutton called and sang his hit Madam Butterfly down the phone to him and they promptly moved in together. She still speaks of him fondly, and retells funny stories of his grandmother threading his pubic hair with silk ribbons to stop him having sex. The