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Reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 1990. Ed. Richard Ford. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 105–126. Also reprinted in The Literary Insomniac: Stories and Essays for Sleepless Nights. Eds. Elyse Cheney and Wendy Hubbert. New York: Doubleday, 1996. 20–48. I already opposed the Vietnam War. I marched against it. I became a feminist young. That’s when I first read Kate Millett’s Sexual Politicsand Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?” Three Emotional Stories", a lecture given at Pain, Poetry and Perception: A Symposium on the Convergence of Neuroscience, Literature, and Psychoanalysis at Georgetown University. Jointly sponsored by The Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and the Department of Psychiatry Georgetown University Hospital. (With Joseph LeDoux and Michael Jasnow) Georgetown University. October 30, 2010. [ citation needed]

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JULIENNE VAN LOON: This reminds me of another line from “Both-And”. You write: “Perception is conservative.” What do you mean? Perception, prejudice and the story of feminism Bronfen, Elisabeth. "Gendering Curiosity: The Double Games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle." In Bi-Textualität: Inszenierungen des Paares, edited by Annegret Heitmann et al. Berlin: Schmidt, 2000, 283–302. Hustvedt, Siri (February 6, 1986). "Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend". Columbia University . Retrieved February 6, 2019– via Google Books. I remember we bought this house many years ago,” Hustvedt says, wistfully. “We walked in the door and Paul looked at me, and he said, ‘Not bad for a couple of poets’.” Like a fantasy of the novelist’s life made flesh, one pictures the couple working away on their manuscripts, and then coming together for dinner, before settling in to watch a movie. “We have one of those DVD things,” Hustvedt says. “We are partial to movies from the 1930s. There’s an energy to those films, and also the roles for women are infinitely better.” As a history student at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, she saw Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in George Cukor’s Holiday, and remembers being blown away. “I was Katharine Hepburn for an hour and a half,” she said. “She was the outsider in that film.” Without my strangeness, I might not have become a writerConversation with the Harvard neuroscientist Hans Breiter. Brain Wave series at Rubin Museum of Art. March 10, 2010. [ citation needed] The work follows the relationship between Leo and artist, Bill Wechsler and the close ties between each of the characters' families. It explores themes of love, loss, art and psychology. Caroline Rosenthal, "The Inadequacy of Symbolic Surfaces: Urban Space, Art and Corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved," in ed. Caroline Rosenthal, New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism Explorations of the Urban (Rochester, N.Y: Camden House, 2011), 73–122. I have rarely read a novel of such intensity. And it touches on so much: the art world as well as art itself, relationships of many kinds, family, love, loss, psychology and the outsider, the world that is New York City, personas......much more that I'm forgetting (or avoiding for spoilers sake). But then is is titled "What I Loved" and it lives up to it's title.

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The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, As a child, Matthew becomes worried about the concept of turning four. What does this reveal about his character? How is it manifested in his thinking and in his art? In the inventions of the character Dave, and the Ghostly Boy? Who do these represent? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.”You have to become conscious of the light switch – or your own tendencies to typecast, say, in racist or sexist ways to combat automatic gestures or feelings. And that’s why bias is not dependent on the social identity of a person. People who identify as women harbour biases against a woman who runs for political office, for example. The social code that ambition is repugnant in women has become an embodied reality. The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.” SIRI HUSTVEDT: Many people who are looking at ecological models now are theorising the fact that we’re all porous and interdependent beings. [That is, we are not self-contained individuals with firm boundaries between ourselves and other forms of life.] Finding food is vital, so is our reproductive drive, our sexual drive, but we also need to breathe, a passive need dependent on the outside. Hustvedt’s growing interest in gestation and the placenta got me thinking about the notion of nourishment – and the work of political philosopher Corine Pelluchon, whose book Nourishment I have written about. Claudia. Die unsägliche Lust des Schauens: Die Konstruktion der Geschechter im voyeurischen Text. Freiberg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1996.

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Alise Jameson. "Pleasure and Peril: Dynamic Forces of Power and Desire in Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold," Studies in the Novel, vol. 42, issue 4 (2010). We talked about art, gender, misogyny, racism and cultural authority, and her long fascination with the work of US visual artist Louise Bourgeois. Inaugural lecture in series: Neuro Culture: Body and Brain in Cultural Perspective. CUNY Graduate Center for the Study of Women and Society. New York City, September 28, 2010. [ citation needed]Reprinted: The Penguin Book of Art Writing. Eds. Karen Wright and Martin Gayford, 1999. Reprinted in Writers on Artists, London: DK, 2001. The other thing that I liked about this book is Hustvedt’s ability to imprint strong images in her reader’s mind. It will take me sometime to shake off many scenes like Matthew’s death particularly when Leo thought: ”he is Matthew and he is not Matthew” or that scene when Violet was cradling the dead Bill not calling a police yet since she wanted to lay side by side with him. Or Violet wearing Bill’s work clothes or Mark wearing woman’s clothes. I was also able to picture in my mind a couple of paintings that were fully described in the story as if I saw those pictures with my own set of eyes!