#dora: a headcase

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

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Title: Dora: A Headcase | Author: Lidia Yuknavitch | Publisher: Hawthorne Books (202)

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sometimes i remember my childhood best friend took one of my favorite annotated books in the divorce and i get angry again

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Nora Lin Rose

Leo Tolstoy / Devil's Price - Dead Man's Poison / Revenge - Letitia Elizabeth Landon Recovering: A Journal - May Sarton / Dora: A Headcase - Lidia Yuknavitch / a note on the body - Danez Smith / Feel It Still - Portugal The Man /John Ford

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Lidia Yuknavitch on Artistic Responsibility, Life and Death Moments, The Savior Complex, Understanding Others, Ideology, Direct Action, Rage, and Change

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 370, my conversation with author Lidia Yuknavitch. It first aired on July 15, 2015.

Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.  

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

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Recently re-read Dora. a Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch. I like her writing style but I can see how it might not appeal to everyone especially in this book. It’s about a teenage girl called Ida who’s sent to see a psychiatrist (who she nicknames Siggy after Sigmund Freud) + she starts secretly filming/recording him as an art project. She also has a gang of friends she hangs out with + various family issues. That makes it sound more light hearted than it is but at the same time there is a lot of black humour in it. It’s just a really strange book w/some great bits of writing. I could see Netflix adapting it.

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The Sleepy King 39 — Kookoo 2018 — 17/01/18

Le premier chant de l'année : l'invisible coucou sous la neige annonce que le jour allonge. The year first song : the invisible cuckoo, under the snow, sings that the days are getting longer. Poèmes de Paul Colinet et Joanne Kryger. Poems by Paul Colinet and Joanne Kryger. Musique et poésie avec Benoît Chaput de L'Oie de Cravan. Trente-neuvième émission, 17 janvier. Music & poetry with Benoît Chaput from L'Oie de Cravan. Thirty-ninth show, jan 17th.

Playlist 1. Sylvain Lelièvre - Petit matin 2. Captain Beefheart - Harry Irene (jam demo) 3. Captain Beefheart - Harry Irene (album version) 4. Dana Gavanski - How much is enough 5. Richard Buckner - Kate Rose 6. Baden Powell - O cego aderaldo 7. Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - Cuckoo Bird 8. Sarah Louise - Rabbit Hole 9. Travelling Headcase - Baie Déception 10. House & Land - Johnny 11. Albert Viau - Alouette n'aie pas peur de moi 12. Éloise Decazes & Delphine Dora - La Donna Ideale 13. Quix*o*tic - The Breeze 14. Throwing Muses - Vicky's Box 15. Alanis O'bomsawin - Bush Lady 16. Sarah Hennies - Fleas (Part II) 17. Paul Colinet - 2 poèmes 18. King Gong - Bao Zookhen 19. Joanne Kryger - Destruction (poème) 20. Concrete Rubber Band - Wicked 21. Les Troncs d'Arbres - Lent Feu 22. Buck Gooter - One War 23. Lewis Barlot - 20 raisons d'se battre 24. Shakleton & Anika - Endless Memento…

Image : Coucou de Athanasius Kircher (1650

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Dora: A Headcase

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Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch

Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals engage in "art attacks." Ida’s in love with her friend Obsidian, but when she gets close to intimacy, she faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly film Siggy and make an experimental art film. But something goes wrong at a crucial moment—at a nearby hospital Ida finds her father suffering a heart attack. While Ida loses her voice, a rough cut of her experimental film has gone viral, and unethical media agents are hunting her down. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida has.

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Happy Birthday, Lidia Yuknavitch, born 18 June 1963

Seven Quotes

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

I’d say art is with you. All around you. I’d say when there doesn’t seem to be anyone else, there is art. I’d say you can love art how you wish to be loved. And I’d say art is a lifeline to the rest of us – we are out here. You are not alone. There is nothing about you that scares us. There is nothing unlovable about you, either.

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to “critique” as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.

We live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent – the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

I’ve noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.

Yuknavitch  is an American writer, teacher and editor. She is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water, and the novels The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase.

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

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I'm reading Lidia Yuknavitch's novel Dora: A Headcase and I'm really not enjoying it lmao. Cool concept but the narrator is -way- too comfortable using slurs and has a v problematic indigenous character. And I'm only like 70 pages in lol.

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Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt

Dora: A Headcase; Lidia Yuknavitch

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A quick bio on Lidia

Lidia Yuknavitch is an American author, editor, mother, and survivor based out of Portland, Oregon. She is most famous for her novels, “The Small Backs of Children” and “Dora: A Headcase,” but her memoir “The Chronology of Water” is the ultimate explanation that answers questions of reality-based fiction that is introduced in her novels. Yuknavitch conducted a very famous Ted Talk about her life and memoir, outlining herself as a “mis-fit” and the tragic losses and prevailing winds that come with such a title. In her talk, she spoke of the leveling stages of her life that she felt she deserved, such as her issues with homelessness, the miscarriage of her child, the opportunities she missed and the embracement of her efforts to keep it all together. Yuknavitch may seem like an open book, since she blends in her own life struggles with her fictional characters. However, there are certainly unseen layers of this writer. Memoirs are simply what the writer wants you to know about them, no matter how open they seem.

Yuknavitch’s political views, although they could have been guessed, are evidently liberal. Her twitter account speaks out unapologetically against the new presidential administration, once tweeting on February 8th “Elizabeth Warren for president,” and also on January 27th tweeting Huffington Posts article links with the caption, “It's not a possible conflict of interest, it is an actual conflict of interest. IMPEACH::.” Yunkavitch’s twitter account seems like a vessel for her to export her writing, opinions, and thoughts fairly quickly and often. She exclaims feminist and queer views, along with left-wing political opinions.

In an online interview with The Rumpus Book Club, Yunkavitch speaks about her time with a Dominatrix, “It was scary and intense for me too—but large catharsis and cleansing and sexual path to enlightenment.” She also mentions how she does not believe in the duality split of the mind and body, they are one in her opinion. She has close to 5,000 friends on facebook, in which she shares her travels, including a recent trip to Washington D.C. on February 9th. Lidia also often takes photos of nature, most likely near her home in Portland with her husband Andy Mingo.

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase