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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1938-1995 | Patricia Highsmith
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Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks--posthumously discovered behind Highsmith's linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta--traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who "[worked] like mad to be something." Beginning in 1941 during her junior year at Barnard, the diaries exhibit the intoxicating "atmosphere of nameless dread" (Boston Globe) that permeates classics such as Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series. In her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art, her fixation on love and writing, and ever-percolating prejudices, the famously secretive Highsmith reveals the roots of her psychological angst and acuity. In one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to publish in generations, at last we see how Patricia Highsmith became Patricia Highsmith.
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Simona
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I can‘t … 15 hours was enough 😔
#AuthorAMonth

vivastory I love Highsmith's fiction, but I have heard that she herself was an unpleasant person 2y
EvieBee She‘s…A LOT! 2y
Soubhiville 15 hours is plenty! Good job getting through that much. Did you learn anything that made those hours worthwhile? 2y
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Simona @vivastory I don‘t know where I have read, that she was hard-core introvert and maybe because of that, she gave that impression. I reached the point where she was around her twenties, deciding what to do with the life and she was starting to explore her writing voice … and she was definitely a lot. @EvieBee Very free spirited, opinionated, but she was also very sharp observer and thinker. @Soubhiville I‘ve never read any of her books, but …👇 2y
Simona … I‘m hoping to change that soon. 2y
vivastory I think you would like Edith's Diary (a novel). I read it last year & I thought about it for months. I don't know if you listen to Backlisted Podcast, but they did an episode about it:
https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/106-patricia-highsmith-ediths-diary
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Simona Thank you @vivastory for recommendation! I listen Backlisted, but I don‘t remember that episode, for sure that will be my bad story tonight. 2y
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LindaLappin
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“The world is too rich to be eaten. One sits in a whirl at one‘s desk thinking of drawing, writing, walking in the woods.“ - an eye-opening & illuminating read.
#writersdiaries #writers

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ferskner
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When your publishing rep really, really gets you. 😍😍😍

LeahBergen Look how cool she was! 2y
Leftcoastzen 😂👏 2y
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