#jen silverman

[zuzuspells]

"Our books, plays, films and TV shows can do the most for us when they don’t serve as moral instruction manuals but allow us to glimpse our own hidden capacities, the slippery social contracts inside which we function, and the contradictions we all contain." [gift article]

#on writing #jen silverman #op ed #their definition of humanity is the key

[whats-a-terrarium]

The Moors, Jen Silverman + It Will Come Back, Hozier

#saph.txt #i know this looks like literal shit #its 3 in the morning i decided i had to do this and cant go to sleep until i do #so here you go #the moors #jen silverman #hozier #dog motif

[do-you-know-this-play]

#the moors #jen silverman #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls

[bermudianabroad]

While I typically share the progressive political views of my students, I’m troubled by their concern for righteousness over complexity. [...] We need more narratives that tell us the truth about how complex our world is. We need stories that help us name and accept paradoxes, not ones that erase or ignore them. ... the more we cultivate audiences who believe that the job of art is to instruct instead of investigate, to judge instead of question, to seek easy clarity instead of holding multiple uncertainties, the more we will find ourselves inside a culture defined by rigidity, knee-jerk judgments and incuriosity.

Jen Silverman, Art Isn't Supposed to Make You Comfortable April 28th, 2024 in The New York Times

#quote #art #writing #complexity #they said a lot of things that resonate #jen silverman

[lgbtqreads]

Happy Bi Visibility Day 2022!

Happy Bi Visibility Day 2022!

Please note that this post only includes titles etc. not included in earlier Bi Visibility Day posts. (Exception made for books posted without a cover last year or whose pub dates significantly changed since last posting.) For even more bi goodness, make sure to check earlier Bi Visibility Day posts!  Books to Buy Now Middle Grade The Trouble with Robots by Michelle Mohrweis Eighth-graders Evelyn…

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#A Dash of Salt and Pepper #Akwaeke Emezi #Amy Spalding #Ashley Herring Blake #Astrid Parker Doesn&039;t Fail #Becky Albertalli #Bi Visibility Day #Cassandra Newbould #Cecilia Vinesse #Chloe Spencer #Cynthia So #Dahlia Adler #Death by Society #Elba Luz #Going Bicoastal #Haley Jakobson #If You Still Recognise Me #Jen Silverman #Jennifer Dugan #Kosoko Jackson #Marisa Urgo #Melt With You #Meredith Mooring #Miel Moreland #Misha Popp #Monstersona #Never Ever Getting Back Together #No Boy Summer #Old Enough #Redsight

[dxppercxdxver]

YEAHHHHH WOOOOO IT'S ANOTHER STORY ABOUT EATING THE THINGS YOU LOVE LET'S GO BITCHES

#radio free junebug #my writing #the moors #jen silverman #mastiff #moor-hen #the moors jen silverman #the mastiff #the moor-hen #mastiff the moors #moor-hen the moors

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2022: we play ourselves by jen silverman

In the end, we are all entirely summed up by our single most public failure, and not by any of the nuanced, beautiful, difficult things we accomplished before or after.

#we play ourselves #jen silverman #storyseekers #booksociety #litedit #my edits #2022books

[alovelylight]

does anyone have a pdf of jen silverman’s the moors i would owe you my life

#calling all literary tumblrinas #jen silverman

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #375

An end of week recap “Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.” – Mary Wollstonecraft (born 27th April 1759) This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various…

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#1937 Club #1970 Club #Aube Rey Lescure #Catherine McNamara #Jen Silverman #Marcy Norton #Mary Wollstonecraft #Persephone Books #Podcast #The Persephone Festival

[oracleofmadness]

This has dual timelines focusing on an intriguing topic, protests and relationships. Minnow is in 2018 and Keen in 1968. Both have similarities but are dealing with completely different areas. I found this to be incredibly interesting.

Great writing and fantastic characters. However, I can't say I loved the characters themselves. It's definitely a love-hate relationship there. I feel like this story is missing something, particularly with it ending the way it did. But, I can't help but recommend this as a wonderful piece of fiction.

Out April 9, 2024!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

#book #bookish #books #bookworm #currently reading #book review #read #bookblogger #reading #historical fiction #literary fiction #theres going to be trouble #jen Silverman

[frontmezzjunkies]

Second Stage Spins Forth a Compelling and Funny "Spain" for the Consumption of the Disinformation Age

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #JenSilverman's #SpainPlay @2STNYC d: #TyneRafaeli w/ #AndrewBurnap #MarinIreland #ZacharyJames (#TomNelis) #ErikLochtefeld #DannyWolohan #OffBroadway #SecondStage #SpainWorldPremiere

Marin Ireland and Andrew Burnap in 2ST’s SPAIN. Photo by Matthew Murphy. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review; 2ST’s Spain By Ross It’s like we walked into an old spy movie with handlers and propaganda slinking around the edges, backlit and mysterious, but with a level of frenetic distortion that is more Hollywood than any kind of documentary informational film that is being discussed here. Playing…

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#Andrew Burnap #Jen Silverman #Marin ireland #off broadway #second stage #tyne rafaeli

[judgingbooksbycovers]

We Play Ourselves: A Novel

By Jen Silverman.

Design by Rachel Ake Kuech.

#We Play Ourselves #Jen Silverman #Rachel Ake Kuech #books #book covers

[manichewitz]

theatre life is not real. i have an audition next week for a black swan musical written by dave molloy. and i have to just be normal about that

#AND THE BOOK IS WRITTEN BY JEN SILVERMAN!!!! #a fact which is significantly less important to the general public but is HUGE to a certain subsection of theatre gays #this is big you guys #im shaking at a subatomic level #theatre #acting #alex talks #.txt #black swan #dave molloy

[mooremars]

Spain is finally open which means reviews are out and smarter people can finally explain this play to me, what a happy day

#the consensus so far seems to be that i'm not stupid and maybe the play isn't as clear as it should be #i don't care i loved it and want to see it again but good to know it's not just me #also there the reviews can't agree on whether helen is a real person or if the spanish earth was funded by the soviet union #so like Jen Silverman drop your sources i wanna be a nerd about this #Charlotte for ts #the brain is still mired in spain in case that wasn't clear

[lgbtqreads]

Backlist Book of the Month: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

Backlist Book of the Month: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

Like many others who’ve been privileged to spend most of the pandemic thus far working from home, I’ve started to go back into the office a couple of days a week, and let me tell you, I picked an excellent first commuting book in We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman. I absolutely love books that engage with the mental gymnastics, emotional instability, moral quandaries, and all the other messiness…

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#Adult Fiction #bisexual #Contemporary #featured #Jen Silverman #We Play Ourselves

[thekillersareeatingtheflesh]

i should not have gone to a play on the night that this essay is due

#oh well. at least the play is good #its great actually. its fucking fantastic. #its the moors by jen silverman #its apparently a comedy but honestly ive come so close to crying so many times #shut up frank