Below are three experimentations with footnotes. The first (1st) is from a memoir entitled HTAAH: How to: 22nd Century Woman I ran away to Milford Pennsylvania with a notebook that I filled last fall. From August until December I wrote…

* Was it union activism or gay cruising at the opera? Red scare or Lavender? President Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450, in 1953, which effectively banned LGBTQ+ people from federal employment? Between 5,000 and tens of thousands of gay workers lost…

* There are many Vijverbergs in the Netherlands.  One of the streets near the center of The Hague close to the Parliament is called “Vijverberg.”  The elder Wim Vijverberg I knew married his wife Plonie right after the Second World…

My book project is something on daughterhood, working on new language and ways to understand myself (and maybe for others to understand themselves) in a family not always in relation to mothers; or, if we were once daughters to our…

Footnote for my memoir. A visit from my mother’s friends: The friends were like my mother. They put words together, “d’-ya’-know-what-I-mean-like”,  “I-donno”, “bloody-‘ell”, They called the broom a brush, dustpan a shovel, television the “telly”. They were loud, boisterous, familiar.  They…

The book – a biography of Peter Coyote, actor, writer, and proponent of Zen Buddhism. California Zen: Peter Coyote Becomes a Human Being by Wilson Isaacsen-Gaunt By being, for decades on end, in the right place at the right time,…

  Victoria Phillips BAM 70100 Professor Jason Tougaw 10 September 2022 Footnote Assignment I am working on two projects: a memoir (my thesis, I think) and a “traditional” diplomatic biography of Eleanor Lansing Dulles. Memoir The memoir uses disease as…

I loved Lili’s book. She is sacrosanct in all the best ways – eager to demystify the facts of her subject while sustaining the mystification that seduced her to it from the start. I use “it” here intentionally, wanting to…

LA the endless party, New York the sleepless night, Lili Anolik’s Northern Star: Place and Passion Collide in Hollywood’s Eve “I loved her so much and I wanted to meet her,” or so said Lili Anolik of her subject Eve…

It’s a good thing that Anolik disclaims her book as not being a traditional biography, because she is not a compelling biographer. Nor does she exhibit as a skilled literary critic. She does show herself, throughout Hollywood’s Eve, to be…