She runs with thoughts as they occur to her without losing us, taking in her sister’s death and other losses, considering such writers as Charlotte Brontë and Valerie Solanas, reporting things said at dinners and streetwise personal observations. How to get through the day? How to think about time in terms of history and in terms of one’s momentary sensations. Several chapters called “The Clock” form a Facebook diary of daily life in these times. Stone has taken the zeitgeist and thrown it on the page in a breathtaking assemblage of thoughts, ideas, and conversations. The pieces evolved in many cases from Facebook posts, journal notes, and prompts written with Richard. She once walked out of a screening we went to together of Marguerite Duras’ Le Camion, and a few minutes later I joined her in the lobby of the cinema, realising I was also bored, and talking to Laurie was much more interesting.Įverything is Personal, Notes on Now pulls together the essays and hybrid narrative pieces she has written for publications-including n+1 and Women’s Review of Books-between the election of Donald Trump in November 2016 and August, 2019. She also taught me that we don’t have to endure things that are boring. She made me think about how writing has to get to the thing we want to read about, to identify the heart of things and to ‘eliminate creating heroes and victims’. We met in London one summer, and she came to my house, and I wrote with her and her partner Richard Toon. A feminism that spoke to me, and a writing-style that struck me as fresh because she ditched theory and got to whatever point she was trying to make. ![]() I loved the combination of acerbic wit and gentle nostalgia, and the way she used social media to talk about feminism. ![]() The writer Chris Kraus introduced me to Laurie Stone via Facebook some years ago, and I was immediately engaged by the audacity and lucidity of her posts. The New Now: A Conversation with Laurie Stone about her latest work, Everything is Personal, and the production of a book via social media
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