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News got you down? Spending too much time cooped up at home? Want to experience a different way of thinking? Or are you just wishing for an escape from the daily routine?⁠ ⁠ Your answer: 'Everyday Play: A Campaign Against Boredom' from @redstonepressbooks ⁠ ⁠ @nycitywoman.bookclub writes, "Here is a compendium of unorthodox, highly inventive, and bizarre thoughts, games, and observations by famous writers, poets, artists, and philosophers. As Ed Ruscha, renowned for his Pop Art textual paintings, put it, '"Everyday Play" will jiggle your syntax and bio-energize your astral enzymes.' This oddball book was edited by the British author and designer Julian Rothenstein, with a foreword by the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov (who currently remains in his home country with his family).⁠ ⁠ 'Everyday Play' is an entirely non-online idea-generator. Envisioning a different life, for instance—like becoming one of the last of the Medici, whose schedule is, 'Wake at midday as donkey enters bearing panniers of peaches, grapes, and other fruit. Reach out languid hand. Lie in bed till dinner at five, when entourage of boys comes in to entertain you.'⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Contributions from, among others, Joan Acocella, Louise Bourgeois, Luis Buñuel, Lewis Carroll, Robert Creeley, Adam Dant, Lydia Davis, Jeremy Deller, Dashiell Hammett, Will Hobson, Nina Katchadourian, Karl Lagerfeld, Andrei Monastyrski, Francis Ponge, Erik Satie, Hunter S. Thompson and Mark Wahlberg.⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames #nycitywomanbookclub https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc3bE2mJOCC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

If you need a little levity in your life, have a look at this excerpt from 'Everyday Play: A Campaign against Boredom' @literaryhub⁠ ⁠ Perhaps you might like to Live Like Philip Larkin, Drink Like Hunter S. Thompson, Live Like Djuna Barnes, or Eat Like Patricia Highsmith? Instructions included!⁠ ⁠ Read all via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ ⁠Published by @redstonepressbooks ⁠ ⁠ Contributions from, among others, Joan Acocella, Louise Bourgeois, Luis Buñuel, Lewis Carroll, Robert Creeley, Adam Dant, Lydia Davis, Jeremy Deller, Dashiell Hammett, Will Hobson, Nina Katchadourian, Karl Lagerfeld, Andrei Monastyrski, Francis Ponge, Erik Satie, Hunter S. Thompson and Mark Wahlberg, among others!⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames https://www.instagram.com/p/CcBev_BJXsj/?utm_medium=tumblr

It's a joy to see 'Everyday Play: A Campaign against Boredom' featured @the.tls !!⁠ ⁠ "We may recommend the making of maps from memory—of a 'childhood room, house or garden,' if not the whole globe—as one many harmless distractions suggested in 'Everyday Play.' This 'campaign against boredom' in the form of a single colorful volume is Julian Rothenstein's compendium of anti-banalities. Options include taking life advice from Anton Chekhov ('real happiness is impossible without idleness')' inadvertently becoming a collector of something or other, like Tacita Dean ('On finding the second [postcard of a] frozen water fountain, I found I had begun a collection'); sketching portraits of imagined people in the manner of Ivan Turgenev, 'whose characters he and his friends would then describe'; and, with Sylvia Libedinsky, assigning your own meanings to foreign words, going by their sound ('ANGST: an ancient city in the Arctic… POLTERGEIST: a heavy raincoat').⁠ ⁠ Read much more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @redstonepressbooks #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames https://www.instagram.com/p/CbuqeCCuoNc/?utm_medium=tumblr

And now, our last attempt to find lightness and brightness from our book of the day, 'Everyday Play' —despite, and in defiance of, all of the scary news around us. ⁠ ⁠ Brought to you by @redstonepressbooks⁠ … the challenge is:⁠ ⁠ ⁠THE PORTRAIT GAME⁠ ⁠ This game was invented by Ivan Turgenev. He would sketch portraits of imaginary people, whose characters he and his friends would then describe. 'The Portrait Game' was first played in 1856 at the Chateau de Courtavenel, the country house of Louis and Pauline Viardot (an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano with whom Turgenev was in love).⁠ ⁠ Thanks Redstone Press, Julian Rothenstein and Andrey Kurkov for making us smile.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames #turgenev #turgenevportraitgame #portraitgame https://www.instagram.com/p/CbI1sgbpdVh/?utm_medium=tumblr

In celebration of the official publication date of 'Everyday Play: A Campaign against Boredom' from @redstonepressbooks⁠ …⁠ ⁠ Our second challenge of the day is SIAN BONNNELL's exercise: BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD!⁠ ⁠ She writes:⁠ ⁠ This is all you’ll need:⁠ ⁠ White card⁠ ⁠ Scissors⁠ ⁠ Black fingerless gloves⁠ ⁠ Some sort of bling on a chain⁠ ⁠ Large-sized dark glasses⁠ ⁠ Black jumper or jacket⁠ ⁠ Cat⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames #sianbonnell #sianbonnellgame #sianbonnelleverydayplay #becomekarllagerfeld #karllagerfeld #karllagerfeldgame https://www.instagram.com/p/CbIStdeul4Z/?utm_medium=tumblr

These days, we need to find brightness and lightness wherever we can. Today we are celebrating the official publication date of 'Everyday Play: A Campaign against Boredom' from @redstonepressbooks⁠ with a series of challenges from the book.⁠ ⁠ First up: LIVE LIKE MAYA ANGELOU⁠ ⁠ George Plimpton asks: When you are refreshed by the Bible and the sherry, how do you start a day’s work?⁠ ⁠ ⁠Angelou's answer: I have kept a hotel room in every town I’ve ever lived in. I rent a hotel room for a few months, leave my home at six, and try to be at work by six-thirty. To write, I lie across the bed, so that this elbow is absolutely encrusted at the end, just so rough with callouses. I never allow the hotel people to change the bed, because I never sleep there. I stay until twelve-thirty or one-thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to breathe; I look at the work around five; I have an orderly dinner – proper, quiet, lovely dinner; and then I go back to work the next morning. Sometimes in hotels I’ll go into the room and there’ll be a note on the floor which says, Dear Miss Angelou, let us change the sheets. We think they are moldy. But I only allow them to come in and empty wastebaskets. I insist that all things are taken off the walls. I don’t want anything in there. I go into the room and I feel as if all my beliefs are suspended. Nothing holds me to anything. No milkmaids, no flowers, nothing. I just want to feel and then when I start to work I’ll remember. I’ll read something, maybe the Psalms, maybe, again, something from Mr. Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson. And I’ll remember how beautiful, how pliable the language is, how it will lend itself. ⁠ ⁠ From @parisreview issue 116, autumn 1990⁠ ⁠ ⁠Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #artistgames #philosophergames #writergames #games #mayaangelou #mayaangelougame #livelikemayaangelou #campaignagainstboredom https://www.instagram.com/p/CbIFwNQOKBZ/?utm_medium=tumblr