A review by usedtotheweather
Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind by Dodie Bellamy, Anthony Huberman, Jeanne Gerrity

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.