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On Obama’s strange comments yesterday…

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Cathy Borders

Let’s deconstruct what Obama said about the Caliphate…

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Amina Cain’s Creature is very much alive

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Cathy Borders

Myself, alone, in my bed, is a story. Creature is a quiet place. It’s deliberate, clean, and deeply personal. Delicate too, and therefore deceptively strong. I imagine Amina Cain staring at a block of marble until the story takes shape. … Continue reading →

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Fuck The Virgin Suicides

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Cathy Borders

Seriously, fuck this persistent trope of glorifying and preserving the innocent, pretty girl victim, and especially fuck the cultural obsession with “virginity.” Virginity is a social construct. It is impossible to define without making it glaringly obvious that its perimeters … Continue reading →

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The Crone inside Howl’s Moving Castle

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Cathy Borders

Virgin. Mother. Crone. The life cycle of a woman according to her lady bits. In Lynne Masland’s “The crone: emerging voice in a feminine symbolic discourse”, the crone is “an alternative symbolic discourse that permits women’s voices to be ‘heard.’” … Continue reading →

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m, a poetic reading on the text between Beckett’s L’Innomable and The Unnamable

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Cathy Borders

This book blog post is not about Beckett at all… The inimitable Lily Robert-Foley, best friend extraordinaire, wrote a book, m, that, while a text in and of itself, is more of a transmission: the revelation of, or commentary on … Continue reading →

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Bion and Beckett

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Cathy Borders

In preparation for reading my Lily Robert-Foley’s m –– which is a poetic translation project focusing on the third text between Beckett’s autotranslations of his trilogy –– I’m reblogging an old Beckett post I had once written on the slipperiness, … Continue reading →

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Feminism and The Ten Year Nap

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Cathy Borders

Meg Wolitzer wrote an acclaimed, lauded, best-seller, The Ten Year Nap, which, in a nutshell, delivers what it promises. (Haha.) Her characters are all stay-at-home moms who were once promising in their careers but left them for one reason or … Continue reading →

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The MaddAddam Trilogy, or how I survived my depression.

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Cathy Borders

I’m reticent to publicly delve into Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy because I want to resist coming out of hiding. I’m in a period of drastic change. Change catalyzed by an admission of failure. Things aren’t going well, they haven’t been … Continue reading →

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My Denial of Death

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Cathy Borders

Every year, around my birthday, I freak out. Often, it’s about my failings, anxiety about my crushing ambition, but mostly, it’s about my inevitable death. My Thanatophobia is why I bury myself in books. Bound and bracketed texts comfort me. Ernest … Continue reading →

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Never Smile at a Crocodile

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Cathy Borders

Swamplandia! You broke my heart. I wanted to like you. Nay, I wanted to love you, but I didn’t, I couldn’t. Karen Russell’s overuse of simile was distracting, but the overall metaphor of the project fell flat. Swamplandia! is a … Continue reading →

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