Amanda Fortini Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Amanda Fortini

West Elm Caleb calls to mind the Hollywood “producer” who in fact produced nothing but dated a handful of women I knew and sent them all the same passage from Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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My other grandmother, the Italian one—Grandma Bev was a sweet little Irish lady—was named Rosemary, but we called her “Grandma Rosary.” The rosary was a part of our lives and as tiny kids that’s what my sisters and I thought her name was! 😂

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I spy @walterkirn reading @WTSchultz’s beautiful new book, The Mind of the Artist, in the wild. https://t.co/Vxrnhm4Yqs

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This is from bell hooks' "The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love," which I often teach, because is honest and humane and so beautifully expressed. She had deep compassion for men and didn't demonize them; she understood we are all part of a system. RIP bell hooks.

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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@EminaMelonic Also read Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Her 'morning pages' work magic.

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“Also, I’m sorry, but who walks into a bookstore and just idly picks up a book titled Truth & Beauty with...an illustration of a dragon fly on the cover???” Do not miss this, the second unvarnished installment of ⁦@yoloethics⁩ gift guide. Books! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i3y3cF-2FaFrY3yT_lnWkg4jFQyOMtwGuzyd9GLih9Q/mobilebasic

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@AmericanGwyn I remember being very scared (and morbidly fascinated) by the Brothers Grimm fairy tales

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@default_friend The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own