Hannah Goldfield —it’s very easy to be impressed by people when you don’t see their lives. Being inspired by someone when you see the full cross-section of their existence is rare and lovely. Hannah is an incredible mother, friend, daughter, sister, wife, continually kind, honest, hilarious. It’s a bonus that she’s masterful at writing about food.
Hannah Goldfield—it’s very easy to be impressed by people when you don’t see their lives. Being inspired by someone when you see the full cross-section of their existence is rare and lovely. Hannah is an incredible mother, friend, daughter, sister, wife, continually kind, honest, hilarious. It’s a bonus that she’s masterful at writing about food.
Feeling seen · Molly Mielke
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She creates slow-cooked fictions—lonely, restrained pieces that turn their back on the specificities of the everyday. He gathers raw documentary experiences, which are contingent on the participation of others and delve into their messy lives.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
I adore this about her. The insistence upon beauty and awe being a daily part of her life. The fixed principle of the thing.
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
She had a kind of genius for being amazed by the world and by herself; all her life she remained a virtuoso marveller at things. As she said in her memoirs, this was the origin of fiction-writing: it began at those times when ‘reality should no longer be taken for granted’.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
“I judge a woman by her friends.” At the time, this had seemed strange and harsh to me. But now I understood what he meant: that a person is only as good as those with whom he surrounds himself.
Joanna Smith Rakoff • My Salinger Year
She’s not sharing the how-to, she’s telling me powerful and life changing stories. She’s challenging my thinking and she does it all through sharing amazing stories with humility, honesty and humor.