She Threds

Well, here we go! The start of Women's History Month. I'm going to begin this year with an author I knew nothing about until stumbling into an airport art museum at SFO this past week. I love discovering arts and artists while roaming airports, and want to encourage you to do the same. Gloriously, it is almost always there but in our rush and preoccupation we often miss it.

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) - First African American woman science fiction writer to gain national recognition.

This quote beneath her portrait grabbed my eye and drew me in:
"You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in. Whether you were a part of the greater society or not, you got to write yourself in."

Come and see me today at Hartwell’s Pre4th Fair! I’m on Forest Ave, across from Southern G’s 🌸

#28 Elizabeth Hardwick - Author, co-founder of The New York Review of Books.

“There is simply no accounting for her gifts. She was a unicorn, born among horses.” -William Deresiewicz

Hardwick "spun large and small observations out of inventive allusion and gossamer subtlety, and respected her readers enough to believe they could keep thinking along with her.” -Cathy Curtis

"She was elegant and original, fearless and resilient, a literary lioness who kept producing well into her eighties. She was the last survivor of a group of notable female cultural critics who left a lasting mark on twentieth-century American letters.” -Brian Tanguay

Book Review | ‘A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick’ by Cathy Curtis Biography of Elizabeth Hardwick is an exploration of a unique literary talent.