DIRT2009

DIRT joins Filth in The Economist

2009-12-22T08:17:00.000-08:00

Dirt 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=15108662

Dishing DIRT with Faith Ranoli

2009-10-22T20:30:00.000-07:00

DIRT editor Mindy Lewis talks with Faith Ranoli http://view.liveindexer.com/ASXGenerator.aspx?mediaSKU=QgheQCFEFz93h1Mq%2bxA%2b5Q%3d%3d on HealthyLife.net

CLUTTER INSTALLATION

2009-09-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

Song 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

TWO DIRT READINGS

2009-09-06T06:54:00.000-07:00

Saturday 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/

DIRT reviewed in BITCH Fall Issue, p.62

2009-09-06T06:50:00.000-07:00

Good 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).

DIRT-worthy news!

2009-09-06T06:40:00.000-07:00

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

DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House

2009-03-09T15:29:00.001-07:00

Seal 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

2009-03-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

Publisher'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 for

The City Visible - Mr. Clean

2009-02-01T19:47:00.000-08:00

OF 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

2009-02-01T19:00:00.000-08:00

DIRTY 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,