Joan, 2026, softcover, 55 pages, 18.2 x 12.8 cm
‘The book, what it contains, the way it behaves, it’s shape, sensibility, and so on, is, I believe profoundly female,’ I wrote, eventually, in response.
How We Spend Our Days by Claire-Louise Bennett, and Five Minutes Peace by Dorothy Spencer, accompany Marguerite Duras’ seminal essay Writing (tr. Mark Polizzotti), a meditation on writing and one of her last works (originally published in French in 1993, one of five essays in Écrire).
‘A visceral, compact celebration of why writing matters and how the act itself can feel alive and urgent even in its smallest gestures. I was completely inspired and engrossed by how it argues for writing as an essential form of thinking and being, a spark that refuses to be quiet.’
– Misha Honcharenko
