![]() Bonnie Wertheim's profile of the "radical feminist" is not quite as detailed or sympathetic as Laing's, but she does usefully cites several works Solanas' sad life has inspired. I'd probably just go to my room, fluff up the pillow, turn on a couple of TVs, open a box of Ritz crackers."Ĭoincidentally, just a few days before Atkinson's essay appeared, the NYT featured Valerie Solanas, who shot Warhol (as Laing recounts), in its ongoing "Overlooked No More" obituary series. "If I only had time for one vacation every 10 years," he wrote, "I still don't think I'd want to go anywhere. Those of you who read Olivia Laing's The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Living Alone, which we discussed last month, may be surprised to learn from Atkinson that Warhol, a partygoer who could rarely attend a happening without at least a six-person retinue, was an ardent disciple of puttering around his apartment solo. Aronson, as saying: "Warhol told me that he felt the book could give people a way that they could think, too, and that they could use it to solve their own problems." And so it proved for her. She quotes the book's editor, Steven M.L. Writing in the June 30 issue of the New York Times, Sophie Atkinson tells how helpful she found rereading Andy Warhol's 1977 autobiography: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) during the pandemic lockdown. At the end, the authors write, 'Like all the other penguins in the penguin house, and all the other animals in the zoo, and all the families in the big city around them, they went to sleep.' Would that we could all let each other live and sleep in peace." Amen! But in fact, this adorable true story, with its perfect harmony of words and illustrations, will appeal to any child interested in the fascinating variety of nature. According to complaints lodged at schools and public libraries, these little guys gave an agenda beyond just raising a chick on their own. " Nothing highlights the fragility of some adults quite like the campaign against this nonfiction picture book about two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo. ![]() Seven of them are LGBTQ-related: George Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Prince & Knight I Am Jazz Drama and what is probably the most famous title on the list: And Tango Makes Three. Last month, Washington Post book critic Ron Charles decided to observe Banned Books Week by reading the "Top 10 Most Challenged Books" compiled by the American Library Association. ![]()
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