Yes, I would love a map! My understanding is that Jezebels is in Boston (Gilead) and New Bethlehem is within driving distance. On the pod we discussed MayDay being in No Man's Land but unsure as to exactly where, although the abandoned chair lift might be a clue for locals!
Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.
Pronatalists: Encourage white births, enforce regressive, hierarchal & stratified social roles, push women out of public sphere & limit women’s prospects for social, professional intellectual life to pregnancy, childcare & housework. @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Keep a listen out for Fiona's hilarious reference to Zoolander, my throwback to Sydney Bristow from Alias, as well as a bonus Buffy quote. Haidee picks up on the use of 'numbnuts' and Sana goes deep on Nick's murderous motivations.
A new episode of Eyes on Gilead should be in your podcast feeds, where we recap 'Janine', ie, episode 5 of The Handmaid's Tale. Which, as @anythingbutfifi
points out, means we are now halfway through the final season! You can find it on Spotify here open.spotify.com/episode/3oxR...
First week back and will you look at that. Thank you to everyone listening to #EyesOnGilead as you watch The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6. It’s a privilege to be watching along with you. Join us for episode 4 recap on Tuesday.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
