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meganmilks's review
5.0
Forthcoming February 2020! This book includes my 10,000-word profile on Dodie along with a talk by Andrew Durbin, an intro by curator Anthony Huberman, and a collaborative piece by Dodie with Kevin Killian, which is I believe among the last things he wrote before he left us in June. Also some images of photos, letters, and ephemera from Dodie and Kevin's archives at the Beinecke. More on this soon!
usedtotheweather's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I don't usually include dissertation related books on this list because so often I read them in an academic fashion--introduction, conclusion, a partial article, indexically guided and necessarily incompletely, as opposed to the through-reading I employ and track on this list ('through-reading' its own kind of incompleteness). But I'm including this here because I really did sit down and read it in less than a day, start to finish, and was moved by it, impressed by it at every step. Perhaps also a sign that I'm moving out of the dissertation anxiety of reading and into a pleasurable engagement with intellectual reading or an intellectual engagement of pleasure? I particulalry appreciated in the volume the range of essays--from other writers, scholars, and then from Dodie and Kevin--their final collaborative writing. The edition itself is beautiful, with reproductions of several objects from the collection at the Beinecke, and photos of Dodie.
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