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Janique Vigier
7 months
I bring a kind of joyless militant energy to throwing dinner parties that no one enjoys
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Janique Vigier
5 years
I have not been ok since finding out the Heavens Gate members pooled their savings before the mass suicide and went out for pizza, to the San Diego Zoo and then to Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies
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Janique Vigier
3 years
my Kondo method is to throw out anything that sparks a memory
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Janique Vigier
6 years
I described something as “skinny” in conversation with Lydia Davis today and she said. “but imagine if you’d said slender” a possibility that will forever haunt me.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
ok same
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Janique Vigier
3 years
my aunt is dating someone she dated 27 years ago. dont give up everyone
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Would love to confuse good sex with love with him
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Janique Vigier
2 years
intimacy is NOT sex or secrets — it’s seeing someone’s post shower towel behaviour
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Not sure who this is "for" but the Hermes customer service line hold music is horses clomping...Commit to the bit.
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Janique Vigier
2 years
“It’s harder when you do it right isn’t it”- my Pilates instructor, with complete contempt
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Janique Vigier
8 months
took a tiny bit of acid and walked through regent’s park….this is what mrs dalloway is about
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Whenever my family refers to someone as a “bon vivant” they are the craziest alcoholic you have ever met.
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Janique Vigier
10 months
this year, like all years, I did my best writing over text message.
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Janique Vigier
6 years
My previous obsession (people who have died in the back of cabs) has been sidelined for people who were born with a stillborn twin (Liberace, Elvis, Philip K. Dick).
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Janique Vigier
2 months
So hard to socialize in London …everyone is always “working on a piece for the LRB.”
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Janique Vigier
3 years
It changed mine !!
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Janique Vigier
6 years
I was crying on the phone to my mom and in the middle of our call she said “is n+1 a WEBSITE?”
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Love the point when someone stops using whatever little sobriquet they’ve given the person they’re dating (“tribeca” “that house painter”) and uses their real name and everyone is like WHO??
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Janique Vigier
3 years
ok back it up Carrie
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Janique Vigier
5 years
I really took to heart that Virginia Woolf line “for heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are thirty.”
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Janique Vigier
3 years
ostentatious self-awareness is the new shallowness
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Losing friends and alienating people by letting them know Cy Twombly is my favorite artist.
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Janique Vigier
1 year
Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s 1988 painting ‘Forbidden Colors’ and part of the statement he released to accompany its presentation that year 🇵🇸
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Janique Vigier
4 years
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Janique Vigier
2 years
French people…never chill
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Janique Vigier
2 years
I’ve thought about it a lot and decided that summer is the worst time to be single and to be in a relationship. good luck to everyone
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Janique Vigier
7 months
What an opening —- SFJ on Heather Lewis
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Janique Vigier
2 years
the Mike Davis hitchhiking quote going around reminds me of this Brecht
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Anne Carson....knows how to upset
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Janique Vigier
2 years
My dad’s sister called and asked if I was “snobby as ever” which, in family parlance, means “reading books.” Then she asked me if I knew how much a cow cost.
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Janique Vigier
4 years
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Janique Vigier
2 years
whatever you think of psychoanalysis I can’t think of anyone for whom it wouldn’t be a good idea to read Paul Keegan's introduction to the Psychopathology of Everyday Life
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Just asked a random German curator what she “wants to do” and she answered “I want to live”
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Janique Vigier
3 years
I read Fanny Howe for advice and I always take it
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Janique Vigier
4 years
the ultimate photo of boyhood... by Nan Goldin ofc...
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Janique Vigier
3 years
I love end of November, when you can abandon all hope and start saying “but next year”
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Though the texts he published were frequently tortuous, Lotringer abided by a simple overarching principle simple. “Never give people what they want,” he said, “or they’ll hate you for it.”
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Janique Vigier
4 years
no one really sounds like they believe it when they this is going to be a great summer
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Janique Vigier
5 years
women against Joe Biden 2020
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Janique Vigier
2 years
I saw Annie Ernaux outside the theatre and said Annie! like we knew each other then she laughed and I almost cried and after I failed to convey how much she meant to me she held my hand ❤️
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Janique Vigier
4 years
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Janique Vigier
5 years
Everyone I know dropping out of the art world to become a private investigator or psychoanalyst.
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Janique Vigier
2 years
perfect author photo
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Janique Vigier
1 year
Whenever I think I'm being a "good communicator" and don't feel understood I remember when I tried to buy a chair and got this response.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
So touched to be invited to a sex party… thanks you guys but I know that leads to love.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
what’s in: sex negativity, machiavelli disguised as valley girl, animated puppets, movies from 1933, Larry David at the fashion show, mania
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Lauren Berlant 💔
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Janique Vigier
4 years
also the art world
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Having someone from out of town stay with you is the fastest way to love New York again
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Semiotexte is republishing two of my favourites from the back catalogue: girl about town Cookie Mueller's stories & advice column and Fanny Howe's conversation with God, Indivisible. I would recommend both to anyone. Just perfect.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
TOBI INTERVIEWS GARY!!!!!
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Janique Vigier
5 years
“With each film I have to fight like a tiger,” she told the critic Barbara Quandt in a 1986 interview. “Oh, I’m a perfect cultural gadget, they have me in all libraries and cinémathèques. I’ll be unforgotten. But they don’t want me to make films.”
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Janique Vigier
3 years
I wish!!!!!
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Janique Vigier
5 years
arts events have taught me that people think they can save a boring personality with big earrings
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Janique Vigier
2 years
it’s good to remember nature is indifferent
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Janique Vigier
5 years
crush-oriented ontology
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Janique Vigier
1 year
who wrote this I want to give them a Pulitzer
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Janique Vigier
4 months
When will @bookforum Summer 2024 be online.....I wrote about a badly-behaved blonde
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Janique Vigier
2 years
This is so sad. Bookforum was our magazine.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
is this *just the thing* for the Paris Review gala
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Janique Vigier
5 years
I told my mom I had been seeing a writer and she said it’s not always important to be happy
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Janique Vigier
6 years
Galleys of Michel Leiris' The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat ready soon. If you: are obsessed with modernity, like careful stylists born in 1901, wear fetishistic accoutrements, this is the one for you.
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Janique Vigier
5 years
Sorry, I had to!
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Janique Vigier
4 years
love the image of Mike Davis dresses like an airline pilot gesturing towards a random house, claiming it’s Lucille Ball’s and then getting shouted at by a super fan
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Have so few applicable skills but whenever I ask someone if they went to Dalton, they did.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
what do women WANT? a linen closet
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Janique Vigier
3 years
If I say "good catch!" it means I hate you.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
every tidbit I read about Frank O’Hara I think “of course”
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Janique Vigier
4 years
What's Trending with Audrey Wollen
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Janique Vigier
3 years
I, too, wrote about Rachel Cusk....& D.H. Lawrence and freedom and frustrated ambition:
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Janique Vigier
2 years
You won’t learn, for instance, that Gertrude Vanderbilt warned her progeny against men who make their money from oil and farm animals because, as she put it, it takes three generations to wash off the oil “and two to exterminate the smell of hogs.”
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Janique Vigier
1 year
the one and only
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Janique Vigier
4 years
went to a comedy club and without warning he went up onstage to do stand up.
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What’s the most awkward date y’all ever been on?
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Janique Vigier
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“She liked to tell people that the “Y.S.L.” on her scarves stood for “Young Socialist League.” (I’ve never gotten over this anecdote)
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Janique Vigier
4 years
I feel like the line in the Benjamin biography: “Like a plant, in the mornings he wanted to live, by evening he wanted to die.”
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Janique Vigier
4 years
Writing requires so much thinking! Something I won’t be doing this summer.
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Janique Vigier
5 years
Prada Marxism (Charlene von Heyl, Michaela Eichwald, Jutta Koether, Cosima von Bonin, Isabelle Graw)
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Thinking of one of DH Lawrence’s berserk flower essays where he describes daffodils as being “bright as angels.” I think we can all agree
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Janique Vigier
3 years
a good age gap is they have multiple newspaper subscriptions and you don’t know where any of your possessions are
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Janique Vigier
3 years
My tailor just said “this doesn’t merit being worked on”… gonna start using that
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Janique Vigier
6 years
happy birthday, Patricia Highsmith
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Janique Vigier
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happy birthday, Isabelle Huppert
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Janique Vigier
5 years
36 is the thinking girl’s 27.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Everyone is in Paris or in love.. don’t worry, not me.
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Janique Vigier
3 years
Worried language is going to lose all meaning if I keep working in art...Just pointed to an unexceptional drawing and said "the lure of it is immense."
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Janique Vigier
2 years
"I loved all the information" – my mom's withering review of my article draft
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Jenny Diski on GROCERIES and DEATH
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Janique Vigier
2 years
Until this morning my mom thought Twitter was a dating site for “artsy people.”
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Janique Vigier
1 year
Can we please stop with "in her own right"
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Janique Vigier
9 months
In March @SemiotextePress is reissuing Heather Lewis' long out of print novel Notice, one of the most harrowing and least forgettable books I've read. Galleys are now ready
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