tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47485585198972105692024-03-05T12:12:10.250-08:00DIRT2009DIRT: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House - a Seal Press anthology - 38 contemporary writers dish the dirt on cleaning, clutter, and housekeepingMindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-46718348775231506182014-01-13T09:49:00.001-08:002014-01-13T09:49:11.848-08:00Sweeping away the pastDebra Gwartney's excellent Salon.com piece about anger, the past and housework: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/my_anger_and_the_mighty_broom/Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-5774060560663559352013-02-05T08:18:00.000-08:002013-02-05T08:18:03.202-08:00100 words on the subject of Dirt, by Jill Lipton:
A Mold Spore Grows in Jericho
Growing up, our house was a paramilitary operation – as if Mussolini and Leona Helmsley had set up suburban housekeeping.
School books needed to be under your bed when not in use. You were allotted one stuffed animal, kept in your closet by day. We three daughters were soldiers, ever clean, Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-8561144337316597042009-12-22T08:17:00.000-08:002009-12-22T08:17:23.914-08:00DIRT joins Filth in The EconomistDirt anthology is cited in the holiday issue of The Economist along with other fascinating facts about filth:
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108662Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-81939369273975955652009-10-22T20:30:00.000-07:002009-10-22T20:30:57.597-07:00Dishing DIRT with Faith RanoliDIRT editor Mindy Lewis talks with Faith Ranoli http://view.liveindexer.com/ASXGenerator.aspx?mediaSKU=QgheQCFEFz93h1Mq%2bxA%2b5Q%3d%3d on HealthyLife.net Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-9922827391985059162009-09-06T08:34:00.000-07:002009-09-06T08:38:15.052-07:00CLUTTER INSTALLATIONSong Dong's "Waste Not Want Not" on view at MOMA is an installation of the artist's mother's possessions accrued in her home over 50 years: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/961Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) explores notions of transience and impermanence with installations that combine aspects of performance, video, photography, and sculpture. Projects 90, his first solo Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-12620130623939644142009-09-06T06:54:00.000-07:002009-09-06T06:58:27.017-07:00TWO DIRT READINGSSaturday Sept 12th, 3PMFort Washington Public Library535 W. 179th StreetNew York, NY 10033Directions: http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/man/fw.cfm#travelJanice Eidus and Mindy Greenstein read essays about motherhood and housekeepingSun, September 13th, 4-6PMSunday Best Reading SeriesThe Lounge at Hudson View GardensPinehurst Avenue and 183rd StreetDirections: http://hudsonviewgardens.com/Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-82963185148577951712009-09-06T06:50:00.000-07:002009-09-06T06:53:02.298-07:00DIRT reviewed in BITCH Fall Issue, p.62Good review...but Jessica Jernigan may miss the point a bit at the end that this is an anthology of personal essays by writers, not professional housekeepers (though we do include two writers who worked as professional cleaners: Louise Rafkin and Nancy Peacock).Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-81537644276522995112009-09-06T06:40:00.000-07:002009-09-06T06:49:09.518-07:00DIRT-worthy news!In the past week, there have been 3 articles in the NY Times directly related to our topic:Today's Sunday Magazine article on storage units, "The Self Storage Self"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06self-storage-t.html?ref=todayspaperHOME & GARDEN | September 03, 2009 At Home With E. L. Doctorow: Writing About the Stuff of Legend <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/garden/Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-47194761086938511612009-03-09T15:29:00.001-07:002009-03-09T15:32:00.172-07:00DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping HouseSeal Press, Spring 2009 ISBN 1-58005-261-4 Available for pre-order from Amazon.comThis thought-provoking collection of personal essays by 38 contemporary writers offers a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our stuff, our dwellings, and our personal space clean and uncluttered. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about our roots, relationships, and our Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-67733683096575875682009-03-09T15:26:00.000-07:002009-03-09T15:27:37.966-07:00Publisher's Weekly review 3/9/2009Inspired in part by “the prime cleaner,” her mother, essayist Lewis (Life Inside: A Memoir) brings Malveaux together with an impressive range of opinions and related issues regarding keeping house in the 21st century. In “Cleaning Ambivalence,” Julianne Malveaux calls keeping house “a dreaded chore for some, a cheerful obsession for others, and a fact of life forMindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-26983601341190089792009-02-01T19:47:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:51:24.951-08:00The City Visible - Mr. CleanOF all the collectors ferreting around flea markets and antique shops, Paul Swedlow may be among the most dedicated. For more than 40 years, Mr. Swedlow, a resident of Greenwich Village, has searched the back racks for vintage cleaning gear to add to his collection. He was at it again one recent morning, picking up a rattan rug beater ($10) from Angel Street, a Chelsea thrift shop.“I’m grabbing Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748558519897210569.post-90889673874304298722009-02-01T19:00:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:31:58.786-08:00DIRTY TRIVIA: “[Virginia] Woolf frequently pondered the “servant question,” but her concern for those she employed was tinged with distaste. “I am sick of the timid spiteful servant mind,” she wrote of Nellie Boxall, her cook for eighteen years. Though Woolf professed a desire for a time when masters and servants might be “fellow beings,” and argued in her work for space and autonomy for women, Mindy Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030020867245390661noreply@blogger.com0