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My first full-length book came out right around the time I gave birth to my first child. I knew some writers (mostly men) who had traveled across the country promoting their books, sleeping on couches in multiple states. As a new mother, I scoffed at this idea. In the mid-2010s, when both my book and baby came out, this implausible image of itinerant writers, plus the occasional book trailer on YouTube, made up the extent of my knowledge of book promotion. I posted about the book a few times on Facebook and called it a day.
Because Touched Out is not my debut, I didn\u2019t really grapple with the weight of those expectations in the months leading up to its publication. In some ways, yes, publishing my first book with a small indie press did make me feel like I had to prove myself this time around, to level up, and I certainly worried and hoped about lots of things. But writing a quiet first book before social media had completely swallowed authorship also insulated me somewhat from some of the pressure of the breakout. I had already not fulfilled those expectations once.
In case you missed it, Touched Out came out last week. Excerpts and essays based on the book have since appeared at The New York Times, The Guardian, Elle, and TIME. I have interviews and other coverage up at The Cut, LA Review of Books, Write or Die, The Boston Globe, and a bunch of Substack newsletters, some at the bottom of this post. The coverage has been surreal, and I\u2019ve received many notes from readers\u2014notes of gratitude, recognition, relief. It\u2019s all been much more than I ever expected.
This is not the first time I\u2019ve received notes that tell me, in much harsher terms, to be quiet/ to disappear/ that I am awful. Years ago, I wrote a piece for Ms. about anti-abortion displays on college campuses. Some guy at a conservative blog wrote a rant in which he repeatedly referred to me as the \u201Cso-called Amanda Montei\u201D (even before AI, he still couldn\u2019t believe I was a human?), accompanied by a hand-drawn picture of a hysterical woman yelling.
I am admittedly also exhausted by Twitter, which really is the bad place now, but also by this American idea that to attack a mother publicly (or commit state violence against a pregnant person) somehow makes one morally good or superior, because it\u2019s done in service of the children. These alt-Right commentators are of course especially uninterested in any sort of nuanced, critical thought about a woman, much less a mother\u2014they simply cannot fathom the idea that mothers have complex emotions, sexual lives, and (wait for it!) memories of living as a girl or woman (!) that sometimes intersect with the work of caring for children (!!).
I\u2019ve spent the last few years emphasizing that I do not think caring for and loving children is inherently terrible, violating, or demoralizing, arguing that we should actively resist that characterization, tracing what\u2019s hard back to the systems that fail us, and to inequality, while at the same time resisting the romanticism of motherhood as the ultimate form of power for women. I have argued that the idea that moms need wine to cope with the terrors of living with children and are destined to be frazzled messes with mental health issues are cultural images rooted in the hysterical woman/mother trope and a normalization of women\u2019s suffering (i.e. what\u2019s hard is just a universal experience!). I have also argued that, at the same time, we need to be equally vigilant about painting mothers as \u201Cthe strongest athletes.\u201D This is why.
For a parent with two other kids holding your infant all the time can make things challenging. I still needed to help with homework, get dinner on the table, and do whatever else needed doing around the house. My Moby Wrap made this possible. I could snuggle my baby girl right up next to me and carry on. She was happy and I was happy.
In an early scene of "The Wild Bunch," the bunch rides into town past a crowd of children who are gathered with excitement around their game. They have trapped some scorpions and are watching them being tortured by ants. The eyes of Pike (William Holden), leader of the bunch, briefly meet the eyes of one of the children. Later in the film, a member of the bunch named Angel is captured by Mexican rebels, and dragged around the town square behind one of the first automobiles anyone there has seen. Children run after the car, laughing. Near the end of the film, Pike is shot by a little boy who gets his hands on a gun.
The video versions of "The Wild Bunch," restored to its original running time of 144 minutes, include several scenes not widely seen since the movie had its world premiere in 1969. Most of them fill in details from the earlier life of Pike, including his guilt over betraying Thornton (Robert Ryan), who was once a member of the bunch but is now leading the posse of bounty hunters on their trail. Without these scenes, the movie seems more empty and existential, as if Pike and his men seek death after reaching the end of the trail. With them, Pike's actions are more motivated: He feels unsure of himself and the role he plays. I saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters. It was party time, and not the right venue for what became one of the most controversial films of its time--praised and condemned with equal vehemence, like "Pulp Fiction." At a press conference the morning after the premiere, Holden and Peckinpah hid behind dark glasses and deep scowls; it was rumored that Holden had been appalled when he saw the film. After a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask "Why was this film ever made?" I stood up and called it a masterpiece; I felt, then and now, that "The Wild Bunch" is one of the great defining moments of modern movies.
The two great violent set-pieces in the movie involve a lot of civilians. One comes through a botched bank robbery at the beginning of the film, and the other comes at the end, where Pike looks at Angel's body being dragged through the square, and says "God, I hate to see that," and then later walks into a bordello and says "Let's go," and everybody knows what he means, and they walk out and begin the suicidal showdown with the heavily-armed rebels. Lots of bystanders are killed in both sequences (one of the bunch picks a scrap from a woman's dress off of his boot), but there is also cheap sentimentality, as when Pike gives gold to a prostitute with a child, before walking out to die.
In between the action sequences (which also include the famous scene where a bridge is bombed out from beneath mounted soldiers), there is time for the male bonding that Peckinpah celebrated in most of his films. His men shoot, screw, drink, and ride horses. The quiet moments, with the firelight and the sad songs on the guitar and the sweet tender prostitutes, are like daydreams, with no standing in the bunch's real world. This is not the kind of film that would likely be made today, but it represents its set of sad, empty values with real poetry.
However, around the same time, a federal court in Washington state said exactly the opposite: The FDA had acted properly in 2016 when it extended the time for using mifepristone from seven weeks of pregnancy to 10, and in 2021, when it said that doctors did not have to see patients in person to prescribe the drug, and that it could be dispensed by mail.
Destiny 2 launched exactly six months ago today, though at times it feels more like six years. A bunch has changed since September, and the game has gone through some dramatic highs and lows. (Mostly lows.) (3/06/2018)
A brief history for those who are new to Kotaku and our on-again, off-again obsession with this game. Destiny is a first-person action game in which players fly around the solar system fighting with aliens, evil cyborgs, and occasionally each other. Collectively, our staff has played over 2,000 hours.
We learned that in the days prior to the interview, Woodlock and other ICL executives had taken Bunch to lunch. ICL officials say they did so as a courtesy, to gain his perspective and better inform the interview. It was around that time that his life had begun to dramatically change.
JUNIPER BERRIESBrief pockets of lite rain wandered ashore in our morning's pre-dawn hours bringing soft sounds of morning showers. A moody looking sky greeted Pheebs and I as we rolled out shortly after eight. It was a short drive into and around Bayfield before we were home again just in time to pick up Kelly and head over to Richard and Gayles with a peach and blueberry pie from the Maitland Market on highway 8 east of Goderich. In other words, they made the coffee and we brought the eats. Sticking to my new eating habits it was only half a piece of pie I had. The second half piece of pie in three months. Doin good but I'm still stuck at 195 pounds and can't seem to get under it.
SOME TREES ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW THE HARD EDGE OF LATE SUMMEROkay, fast forward to 9 p.m. when our power finally came back on. So what happened?? Luckily, there were 3 eyewitnesses who saw what happened and this is what they said. It was a Woodpecker what did it. Yep, a Woodpecker. It was pecking around the transformer on a pole and 'ZAP'!! They had the dead Woodpecker to prove it too. Kelly saw it but I didn't. I didn't need to see a poor little dead Woodpecker. With my slippers on and a limp to go with them, I hobbled around the corner from our place, down the road, and through a bunch of trees to see if I could see the power company that Kelly had phoned a half-hour before. And yes, there they were working on the floodlit transformer pole. Nice to have our power back on so I had to hurry up and get busy with this unfinished post.............
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