Bustle Book Club
The author explores an unusual dynamic inAlice, Sadie, Celine.
Chloe Sevigny wrote ofAlice, Sadie, Celine.I am literally obsessed, Busy Philipps echoed.
Her own response shocked her.
Then I wanted to interrogatewhyI had such a visceral reaction.
Why would that feel like a betrayal?
Why is there this kind of parochial ownership mentality?
That’s why we read literature, to witness the mess without needing to solve it.
Below, Blakley-Cartwright reflects on reading while breastfeeding, writing from bed, and her love of spiral notebooks.
It actually scandalized me, but not for the reasons that one might think.
But now I finally get that I like to have life around as I write.
The ambient French, which I don’t speak, was so helpful.
I love spiral-bound notebooks, but the white of the page and the finish of it also really matters.
Thats the kind I gravitate towards.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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