Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency - essays on art and politics, interviews with other writers, love letters to her favourite artists. it’s brilliant, as is everything Laing writes.
anything & everything she’s touched. evocative, literary, personal, critical, artistic. reading their words feels like falling into a long, lazy river or discovering the truth of the secret garden or connecting immediately, instantly with a stranger or finding peace in solitude
genuinely one of the greatest books i’ve ever read. a series of profiles of famous artists in and around new york throughout the 20th century, and the relationship that social isolation had to their work. also, some amazing accounts of struggles during the aids crisis.
