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Fame and obscurity5/2/2023 ![]() ![]() For instance, as I was reading, I would frequently stop to go hunt down an old book, or I’d Google translations of those I had yet to read. As an act of order, or imagining, her excitement for reading is infectious. “This habit of reading,” Frym observes, “is a form of protectionism, a kind of amulet to counter the assault that threatens to drown us in tidal waves of information, political corruption, multi-nationalism, corporatism, tribalism, and just plain human brutality.” The “habit” of reading “tries to corral the random and creates form for the mind,” Frym writes, tracing her understanding of form etymologically to a Latin sense of fictio-fiction-“‘to form,’ to give shape.” From a dynamic formation of the personal interior, reading is seen as “an act that orders the world” (42). Consider “the practice of immersion” that reading becomes for those of us consumed by texts. She especially directs attention to the ways form inhabits our thinking, and how the textures of our thought are coordinated through an ongoing practice of noticing how words orient attention to the present.Īn essay early in the book reflects on reading habits. Reading and writing are acts of love, and the pathways of affection Frym enlivens helps readers reflect on their own affections for books. ![]() Frym writes also to commemorate the work of important friends, writers from whom she has learned to write herself, like Robert Creeley, David Meltzer, and Lucia Berlin. The collection offers a range of topics, such as her experience teaching incarcerated men and women in Bay-Area prisons, readings of classic fiction, including Madame Bovary, Chekhov’s stories, and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, along with encounters in American poetry through the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Lorine Niedecker, among others. Instead, Frym explores her life as a reader and, incidentally, shows what it means to write in relation to a reading practice. The essays do not promote a particular theoretical angle, nor do they seek to impose a dominating theme to determine how or what we might read. The music business is notoriously unpredictable, and she is all too aware that her fairy tale success story did not happen by the book.The writing gathered in Gloria Frym’s How Proust Ruined My Life and Other Essays is personable, generously gifted to readers. We hold in the tension, and then we release and exhale.”Īfter a whirlwind year, this might be a good time for Ms. “I love songs that have tension, tension, tension, and then release,” Ms. ![]() The song played through the closing minutes of the season finale in May, with the last line, “All we can do is keep breathing,” repeating incessantly over layers of reverberating percussion and instrumentation. “I like to say a lot in a very small amount of words,” Ms. She grabbed the opportunity and created “Keep Breathing,” a song that juxtaposes a plaintive melody with deceptively simple lyrics. Then the producers took the unusual step of asking her to try writing something specifically for the show. As for “Grey’s Anatomy,” the series used not one but three of the songs from Ms. “I had a three-year plan, and we achieved all those goals in 10 months,” Ms. She completed “Girls and Boys” in 2006 and loaded the music onto a MySpace page, where it caught the attention of Lynn Grossman, the owner of Secret Road, a music licensing and artist management company in Los Angeles. So she decided to throw caution to the wind, or, more specifically, to the Internet. “I learned pretty quickly that just because you’re playing at a good venue doesn’t mean people are going to come see you,” she said. She called those shows a sobering experience. By 2003, she had produced her first album, “Slow the Rain,” and was playing at the Bitter End in Manhattan. Michaelson began her music career in 2002 as a barista at the Muddy Cup, a coffee bar and performance space in Stapleton, where she performed weekly. ![]() “Apparently my glasses make me sound just like Lisa Loeb,” she deadpanned, alluding to articles that compared her to Ms. Michaelson has inherited her mother’s dry wit, which she combines with youthful enthusiasm and a penchant for funky eyeglasses. ![]()
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