#lucie britsch | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

dark-romantics · 2 years

Text

Write like the ghosts of all the women in history who weren’t allowed to write are standing right next to you wondering what a laptop is and why you’re still in your pyjamas.

via Lucie Britsch

935 notes · View notes

pinkbowjournal · 2 years

Photo

Moodboard: A Pisces Winter Book List.

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch.

Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi.

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Nox by Anne Carson.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

318 notes · View notes

hungryfictions · 3 years

Text

lucie britsch, sad janet

#quotes #my quotes #lucie britsch #sad janet #depression

209 notes · View notes

bigtickhk · 4 years

Link

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch https://amzn.to/3fXiI6n

The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story by Darin Strauss https://amzn.to/2DwlD9a

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood https://amzn.to/342zXkk

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

US: https://amzn.to/3it7UiT

UK: https://amzn.to/2VGwLWE

#Lucie Britsch #Sad Janet #The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story #Darin Strauss #Charlotte Wood #The Weekend #Sex and Vanity #Kevin Kwan #books #novel #fiction #book review

0 notes

captainmyinvisiblemuseum · 3 years

Text

"Love wasn’t happiness; love was something else, something that transcended all feeling. If anything, it veered toward the sad side."

Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

#book quotes #literature #love quotes

1 note · View note

roaringgirl · 3 years

Text

Book club - February

As previously, books read in February, as I continue to devour novels like when I was 10 and had no friends and nothing to do.

Did not manage to finish any of the books I was stalled on in January. Maybe next month. But I did keep the ratio of men and women authors at roughly 50/50, although with a smaller proportion of women authors than in January. Next month I have to read something published before the 20th century.

1. Dan Simmons - Hyperion (1989): Really enjoyed this! It’s basically a book of science fiction short stories with a fairly tangential linking narrative. I don’t feel much urge to read the rest of the series because the main plot seems incomprehensible, but this was a fun set of science fiction stories.

2. Jeannette Ng - Under the Pendulum Sun (2017): Absolutely love how much the plot of this can be predicted depending on what you know about Newmanism and Anglican eucharistic disputes.

3. John Haywood - Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 (2015): Honestly this was a little dry - I think it’s way too extensive of an overview. Fascinated by the bits about the Vikings in Russia and the Byzantine Empire, though, which is really what I wanted to read about.

4. Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959, sort of a reread although I read it when I was 12 and don’t remember it at all): Set in a monastery in the Southwestern US after nuclear war plunges the world back into the dark ages. I liked it a lot, and would recommend if you enjoy vintage sci-fi. If not, not.

5. Larry McMurtry - Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999): Loved this. A set of essays and recollections half about reading and half about his hometown in Texas. I was really struggling to read at the beginning of this month and this absolutely reminded me of how much I love reading.

6. Nora Ephron - I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (2006): I read this one evening while cooking then in the bath and do not recall it strongly, but I do think it was a fun bath and I made a very nice meal (squid with spinach and broad beans in an anchovy sauce).

7. Irmgard Keun - Gilgi, One of Us (1931): A massive sensation when it was first published because it involves unemployment, sex out of wedlock, abortion and single motherhood. I’m not sure the translation was great - big chunks of it were rendered in irritatingly phonetic dialect as an attempt to capture the Cologne dialect.

8. China Miéville - The Scar (2003): I read Perdido Street Station last month and again, while it’s definitely baggy I absolutely love how closely British politics and society of the early 19th century is rendered in this sci-fi world.

9. Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad (1975): This is a much more substantial collection. Enjoyed it a lot, both as a cultural artefact and because it’s funny.

10. James Meek - To Calais, in Ordinary Time (2019): Struggled to get into this at first but ended up loving it. It reminded me of the actual medieval literature I’ve read sort of like Nobber (Oisin Fagan) did - they’re utterly different books, apart from being about the Black Death, but they both have a slippery alienness and strangeness to them.

11. Dee Brown - The Fetterman Massacre (1962): Excellent study of one incident in the Indian Wars (Brown later wrote Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - this is probably of less general interest, but is very very good).

12. W.S. Graham - The Nightfishing (1955): I love Graham’s poetry but have always struggled to say anything vaguely interesting or intelligent about it.

13. Francis Spufford - Golden Hill (2016): Really fun novel - a (drastically trimmed and more concise) take off of 18th century picaresque novels, set in Manhattan in 1746.

14. Deborah Levy - Hot Milk (2016): Don’t have a lot to say about this - it felt very... insubstantial? Plus a tendency for characters to unconvincingly (cod-)psychoanalyse themselves.

15. Sylvia Townsend Warner - Summer Will Show (1936): What a strange, wonderful book! From the summaries I’d seen I thought it was going to be a fairly insubstantial comedy, which it emphatically isn’t. Probably, with the Golding below and Graham above, a candidate for my favourite book of the month.

16. William Golding - The Spire (1964): The Dean of a medieval English cathedral becomes obsessed with the building of a 400-foot spire - which the cathedral doesn’t have strong enough foundations to support. Nightmarish, claustrophobic.

17. Lucie Britsch - Sad Janet (2020): Whatever. Insubstantial sad-girl MFA lit. Made me appreciate Ottessa Moshfegh more.

18. Jim Crace - Harvest (2013): One to add to my growing sub-genre of ‘nightmarishly claustrophobic historical novels recounting a spiral into disaster’.

19. Mona Awad - Bunny (2019): I hated this. This is pretty unfair because I knew early on that I wouldn’t like it, but it just got worse and worse and worse. If you’re going to attempt to skewer poorly executed post-feminist sub-Angela Carter magical realism MFA writing, I would suggest that you should not yourself turn out a piece of poorly executed post-feminist sub-Angela Carter magical realism MFA writing. I realise I keep using ‘MFA’ pejoratively in these, but it’s just such a good shorthand for this kind of writing.

20. Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby (2021): I was kind of torn on this - there are a lot of things I liked about it formally, but Peters keeps positing fantasies of eroticised violence and subjugation to men as key to womanhood - she clearly wasn’t being entirely serious but I found those parts upsetting, enough to detract from how much I enjoyed the rest of the book, which I did a lot. I don’t know!

21. Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests (2014): Exactly what I expect from a Sarah Waters novel and, therefore, fun. I think this middlebrow 20th-century mode suits her.

22. Marc Morris - A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2008): Very readable popular history, which is exactly what I wanted. I preferred his book on the Norman Conquest but I think that’s just a period I’m more interested in.

#book club

0 notes

darthvadersgirl · 4 years

Text

May

#gallery-0-33 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-33 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-33 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-33 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) / Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner / The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi (Unbound) / These Women by Ivy Pochoda (Ecco)

June

#gallery-0-34 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-34 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-34 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-34 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant (Knopf Children’s) / Queen’s Peril by E.K. Johnston (Lucasfilm Press) / The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson (HarperTeen) / The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth (HarperTeen)

#gallery-0-35 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-35 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-35 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-35 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho (Tor.com) / Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch (Riverhead) / Vera Kelly is not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht (Tin House Books) / I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee (Katherine Tegen Books)

#gallery-0-36 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-36 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-0-36 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-36 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press) / Night Owls and Summer Skies by Rebecca Sullivan (Wattpad) / Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

July

#gallery-0-37 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-37 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-37 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-37 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

Or What You Will by Jo Walton (Tor Books) / Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey (Berkley) / The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press) / Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power (Delacorte Press)

#gallery-0-38 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-38 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-38 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-38 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig (Feiwel & Friends) / A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee (St. Martin’s) / Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell ( Random House) / Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (Doubleday)

#gallery-0-39 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-39 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-39 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-39 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

Afterland by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books) / The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen (Henry Holt and Co.) / The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (HarperAvenue) / Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)

August

#gallery-0-40 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-40 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-0-40 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-40 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) / Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles (Wednesday Books) / Little Threats by Emily Schultz (G.P. Putnam’s Son) / Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Dial Books)

Most Anticipated 2020 Summer Reads May Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) / Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner / …

#Anticipated Reads #Book Preview #Summer 2020

3 notes · View notes

authorstalker · 4 years

Text

Cover Alert: Doge Couture

#cover alert #books #cover art #book design #literature #lucie britsch #sad janet #dogs #sweaters #dogs in sweaters #book cover

0 notes

youraufildespages · 2 years

Text

Happy fucking Christmas, dear Janet de Lucie Britsch

Voici Janet. Janet est triste. Pas seulement pour elle : pour le monde. Le monde, vous savez ? Ce show merdique qui est en train de très mal se terminer. C’est pourquoi Janet s’est isolée : elle travaille dans un refuge pour chiens, au milieu des bois. Là, au grand dam de son petit ami, elle peut éviter au maximum le contact avec les humains. C’est que, voyez-vous, Janet n’a pas envie de rendre…

View On WordPress

#Noel

0 notes

mitchipedia · 6 years

Text

Same here

I organize my books according to where there aren't any books and I put books.

— Lucie Britsch (@LucieBritsch) August 25, 2018

0 notes

thenovelincubator · 4 years

Text

Interview with Lucie Britsch, Author of Sad Janet

Lucie Britsch’s darkly comic debut, Sad Janet, was named one of the Best Books of the Summer by LitHub, The Millions, Refinery29, and Hey Alma, and has earned high praise:

“The narrative voice of Janet in Britsch’s debut novel is a skin-tingling combination of new and necessary. . . . This book and this character are radical, and readers are likely to feel a relief at reading the thoughts they’ve…

View On WordPress

0 notes

hungryfictions · 3 years

Text

my favorite books of 2021 so far

136 notes · View notes

chicagoliterati · 7 years

Text

Twin Peaks, You Ruined Me by Lucie Britsch

"But Twin Peaks stirred something in me that I now know was always there—a love of the weird."

When Twin Peaks first aired in 1990, I was 11 and my sister was 15. It was the show she watched with her friends and therefore the show I was definitely not allowed to watch which only made me want to watch it more.

I would hear her on the phone saying: “that’s a damn fine cup of coffee,” and laughing, and I needed to know what that meant. Being 11, I assumed it was something gross to do with…

View On WordPress

0 notes

longform · 7 years

Link

Capitalism, self-identity, and fraudulent projections.

Lucie Britsch | Vol. 1 Brooklyn | Jan 2017

0 notes

captainmyinvisiblemuseum · 3 years

Text

"I like my edges like I like my hip bones. It helps to know what you’re dealing with. No use pretending the world is soft all the time when it’s really a giant rock."

― Lucie Britsch, Sad Janet

#book quotes #literature

1 note · View note