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Preparing for Impossible Books

ImageMatthew Jakubowski

Just for fun, some photos of the paper, typewriter, and text-in-progress for my collaborative piece for the Impossible Books exhibit. It opens this Friday night at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym in partnership with Gigantic Sequins. The show will feature works by five pairs of writers and artists. Here’s the Facebook invite.

The Royal used to type up the text donated by writers for the project.

The Royal used to type up the text that writers donated for the project.

The 1,200 foot paper roll.

The 1,200 foot paper roll.

Ready to type.

Ready to type.

Good conditions for typing, though required sitting on the floor.

Good conditions for typing, though required sitting on the floor.

Scroll of text typed up and ready to go.

Scroll of text typed up and ready to go.

#readwomen2014

Matthew Jakubowski

I’ve let weeks go by without a post and great things have happened related to #readwomen2014, which I’ll say more about later, but for now just a list!

  • For The Women’s Blog at The Guardian, Joanna Walsh wrote about the #readwomen2014 hashtag she created.
  • Also in The Guardian, Alison Flood wrote a piece about the hashtag and Daniel Pritchard’s announcement that The Critical Flame would only review books by women and writers of color for 2014.
  • At her blog, Badaude, Joanna Walsh posted a roundup of coverage of articles about the movement.
  • The @readwomen Twitter account and Facebook page are now live (and have been, I know, I’m late catching up on things here).
  • Finally, also at Badaude, Walsh has posted photos from bookstores that have added #readwomen2014 sections and tables! I love this — seeing something go from a Tweet right into the real world.

Also, I cited them in my Asymptote post about my reading resolution, but it bears repeating that both Lilit Marcus and Jonathan Gibbs began separate projects reading only books by women before all this started.