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Writing. 'The Orange Notebooks' Bluemoose. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-orange-notebooks/susanna-crossman//9781915693266 'Home is Where we Start', Penguin Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
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To celebrate the paperback release of Home Is Where We Start, my critically acclaimed memoir, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, I am very happy to be @literatureworks.bsky.social Exeter Custom House. Online and in-person 12/07 6.30-7.30pm. Be fab to see you. Info: quaywords.org.uk/events/home-...

To celebrate the paperback release of Home Is Where We Start, my critically acclaimed memoir, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, I am very happy to be @literatureworks.bsky.social Exeter Custom House. Online and in-person 12/07 6.30-7.30pm. Be fab to see you. Info: quaywords.org.uk/events/home-...

Lundi matin.

Lundi matin.

La belle désorganisation d’un jeudi soir fructueux.

La belle désorganisation d’un jeudi soir fructueux.

Mecredi soir. L’invasion de la vigne.

Mecredi soir. L’invasion de la vigne.

This story is about some really difficult issues but the story telling had me engrossed. Do read it. @susannacrossman.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Hier.

Hier.

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously ~Julio Cortázar

La vue du train. Vendredi.

La vue du train. Vendredi.

Mercredi soir. Chez Isa.

Mercredi soir. Chez Isa.

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” Borges, The Book of Sand

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” Borges, The Book of Sand

Hello! A pinned post to say I'm an essayist, writer of fiction and non-fiction, novels and memoir (Penguin, Aeon, Vogue, Guardian...) I love collaborations, hybrid projects, curating, interviewing & teaching. Do get in touch. For more: susanna-crossman.squarespace.com & substack.com/@susannacros...

Lundi, à l’estuaire.

Lundi, à l’estuaire.

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.” Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.

Wisdom.

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.” Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.

Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social author of THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social #writing #writers #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #amwriting #books #reading #amreading #TheWritingLife #Booksky

Lire, nous dit Derrida, lire "c’est devoir travailler à des fouilles géologiques ou archéologiques, sur des supports ou sous des surfaces, des peaux, vieilles ou nouvelles...de livres." J. Derrida, Mal d’Archive, Paris, Galilée, 1995-2008.

Lire, nous dit Derrida, lire "c’est devoir travailler à des fouilles géologiques ou archéologiques, sur des supports ou sous des surfaces, des peaux, vieilles ou nouvelles...de livres." J. Derrida, Mal d’Archive, Paris, Galilée, 1995-2008.

Re-listening to an extraordinary podcast interview about my memoir, Home Is Where We Start. Words on my utopian commune childhood, Gen X kids, Winnicott, women's liberation, bodies, trauma and more... All thanks to Cadence Dubus. brooklynstrength.com/podcast/7mnk...

Looking forward to reading this book... Utopia!

TO REST OUR MINDS AND BODIES by Harriet Armstrong is out today! Harriet was at Bàrd Books on Tuesday and will be in conversation with Luke Kennard next week at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Head here for tickets www.foyles.co.uk/events/harri...

The Battleground: Fieldnotes from la maternité maifeminism.com/the-battlegr...

I have a chronology of my own..." Memoirs d’Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar

The Battleground: Fieldnotes from la maternité maifeminism.com/the-battlegr...

I have a chronology of my own..." Memoirs d’Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar

Re-listening to an extraordinary podcast interview about my memoir, Home Is Where We Start. Words on my utopian commune childhood, Gen X kids, Winnicott, women's liberation, bodies, trauma and more... All thanks to Cadence Dubus. brooklynstrength.com/podcast/7mnk...

@susannacrossman.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Walking past Waterstones and I felt drawn in. Came out with this 👍👍