Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 17

with Sina Queyras

Jun 22, 2022

Hi friends,

Issue 17 is here, and I’m excited to share “On Writing Rooms” by Sina Queyras, a reflection on their latest book Rooms: Women Writing Woolf (Coach House Books, 2022).

Rooms: Women Writing Woolf launches in Montreal on June 24, 2022 where Sina will be in conversation with Alexei Perry Cox at De Still Books:

Coach House Books @coachhousebooks

An IRL book launch is happening next week! 🎉 Join @sinaqueyras and Alexei Perry Cox at De Still Books in Montreal on June 24 ✨

Also in Issue 17, I write about my ADHD diagnosis and how it has impacted my life and writing, and below, as always, you’ll find the June Send My Love to Anyone Recommendations!

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SFU English Department @SFUenglish

Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for our online event, Eyes, Birds, Walnuts, Pennies: Trauma, Madness, Testimony, w/ @ErinsoroS on Thursday at 4:30 PM. We are pleased to announce that author @WordsandGuitar will be moderating this event. buff.ly/3NHuGTv #sfuenglish

Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall

I can’t believe we have the choice between wearing masks and a slow, certain global extinction event and we’re choosing the latter.

Lisa Robertson’s Boat at Coach House Books

If you missed Lisa Roberton’s Toronto book launch, you can watch it here:

Coach House Books @coachhousebooks

couldn’t make it to the event? Check out the video recording of Boat’s launch with Lisa Robertson and Derek McCormack:

youtu.beLisa Robertson in conversation with Derek McCormackThursday May 19th 2022 @ MKG127 Gallery, Toronto ONLaunch of Lisa Robertson’s latest collection of poetry, Boat.

A wonderful poem by Akshi Chadha.

Akshi @akshi_chdh

I am thrilled to have a poem out in @ParenthesesArt! It resounds the ways in which lack of representation is internalized and hybridized and I’m so grateful to @SnehaKantaS for the care she has shown this poem! 💗 parenthesesjournal.com/issue-13/prima…

Craft seminar:

Register for this craft seminar with Alexander Chee: A Couple of People I Used to Be: Approaches to the Self Through the Personal Essay

Enrique Vila-Matas quote:

Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve

"The same skills needed for writing are needed for reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque

Nicole Chung on writing with pain:

Nicole Chung @nicolesjchung

on writing with pain, understanding my needs and limitations, and accepting that rest and care and patience are all essential to the creative life I want to sustain:

newsletters.theatlantic.comWriting With PainYour creative hopes and goals still matter, even when they cannot be a focus.

Punch It Up with Daniela Saioni

A unique program designed to train your comedy brain to help you make film and TV scripts funnier

Have you finished a film or TV comedy script and want to take it to the next level? Are you a Script Consultant or Story Editor looking to add more tools to your toolkit for your comedy writing clients? Or do you simply want to learn the ways of comedy writers in the script punch-up process? If so, this online course is for you.

This multi-faceted program kicks off with a training week with six hours of lectures where screenwriter and punch-up artist Daniela Saioni pulls back the magic curtain to unveil how to think like a comedian when punching up scripts. She will lead you through her insights on sharpening dialogue, help you make stronger and more original choices, amplify subtext through humour, disguise exposition, identify any potential “game” in the scene, apply jokewriting techniques and give you tools to help you find or improve your jokes, strengthen your theme and distinguish your character voices.

That will be followed up with five weeks of twice-weekly live group afternoon Joke Gyms (Tuesdays) and Punch-up Gyms (Thursdays) via Zoom, where we will apply different jokewriting techniques each week to brainstorm jokes and punch up scenes that course participants bring in.

Robin Thede, Natasha Lyonne and THR’s Comedy Showrunner Roundtable

The Hollywood Reporter @THR

“This Is Why Women Are So Dope”: Robin Thede, Natasha Lyonne and THR’s Comedy Showrunner Roundtable

hollywoodreporter.com“This Is Why Women Are So Dope”: Robin Thede, Natasha Lyonne and THR’s Comedy Showrunner RoundtableSix TV bosses — including Jessi Klein, Amanda Peet, Stefani Robinson and Jen Statsky — let loose on actor notes, audience appetite for senior sex scenes and the “bullsh**” they hear from too many peers: “There is a myth, a rumor going around Hollywood that white men are no longer employable.”

Roxane Gay on Hollywood reboots

The Audacity.

Top Gun Too

When Hollywood reboots legacy projects, they understand that nostalgia is incredibly powerful and financially lucrative. The original Top Gun was military propaganda. It made joining the military, and especially the Navy, seem like the height of coolness. You could spend your time flying fast jets, drinking in dive bars, riding motorcycles and making lo…

3 years ago · 170 likes · 12 comments · Roxane Gay

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You:

A six part series

Issue #17 of Send My Love to Anyone

“On Writing Rooms” by Sina Queyras

“My ADHD Diagnosis” by Kathryn Mockler

June 2022 Recommendations

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