Journaling and browsing

ornament and silence: essays on women’s lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer, by Kennedy Fraser:

the white album, by joan didion:

black swans, by eve babitz:

the complete poems, by anne sexton:

the days of abandonment, by elena ferrante:

Moodboard: Aesthetic - Lovecore. 

paintings that feel minty fresh 🍃

It absolutely cracks me up that Elisa goes on this cute seemingly innocent costume date with Goliath, but then-

She fully has a sluttier version underneath ready to GO like 😂

To show us that she, and everyone connected to the world of which she was a part, were rotters of the highest order, Babitz’s work is replete with self-destructive tales of sexual rejection, spite, and a celebrity cohort that can’t have been too pleased about her levels of indiscretion. Where her peers were brittle and bony, clipped and perfected, Babitz was tall, ungainly, voluptuous, unashamed, and beaming, sometimes nude—and this applies as much to her writing as her person.

Babitz pursued a truth that many of us far less fortunate than her know by instinct, but might not have had the ability to otherwise articulate: that true joy is only to be found in life’s absurd little details. A fact that the literary world, in its neurotic preoccupation with the eternal and the profound, seems to continually overlook.

Tank Girl: All Stars #1 - Salon Tank Girl  (June 20, 2018)