Emily Larned

Audre Lorde ate there. So did Adrienne Rich. Since 1977, Bloodroot has been celebrated in the New York Times, the Vegetarian Times, and the book Feminists Who Changed America. For the food as well as the fellowship, Bloodroot's many devotees continuously return to this feminist vegetarian restaurant tucked within a residential harborside neighborhood in Bridgeport, Conneticut. Through personal-political essays by founder Selma Miriam and photographs and essays by original member Noel Furie, this handmade book documents 40 years of the restaurant & bookstore that has nourished generations of feminists. 2017… (plus d'informations)

"However, it was no. 3, "Parfait/Barfait" that really killed me. It starts out with fashion analysis of Edward Gorey (I had no idea about the fur, honestly), 1976 denimware, an absolute style genius 1962 bad boy, Alexander Dumas, a cartoon, a Japanese fashionista, and a Red Cross dog. I just don't know how to convey how funny this is. She follows that with reviews of out of print books she's bought at various tag sales, including Celebrity Needlepoint. Turns out Ann B. Davis was quite crafty!

But as in love as I was with this zine from the first page, I had no idea that it contained screen shots of library search results, for words like "is" and phrases like "who are." Oh. My. Dog. Emily knows the way to a library girl's heart, she does!

I'm tempted to tell you every little thing I loved, but I will restrain myself, because I really want you to buy or borrow a copy. The last thing I'll say is that in the Barfait side of Parfait/Barfait, Emily provides her unrecommendations, "because some things and admittedly, very tiny, nit-picky things not important things just tiny thing like that above typeface are aggressively obnoxious and people need to know." The first section, "Books masquerading as books you want" appealed to my easily crushed book lover's heart. It was followed with some short pieces critiquing ads for their commodifying, coopting ways.

Art, books, criticism, pop culture, libraries, politics--there is so much to love in this zine I almost can't handle it!"

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"No. 2, which I called "It's nice" because of the back cover, so that I could catalog it as a monograph and therefore include the table of contents, is full of clever miscellanea about mid-twentieth century pop culture. Of course being published by EKL means that it's also got fancy Coptic binding and a letter press cover. There's just something utterly outrageous (in a good way) with Emily's biographical profile of a math theorist following a description of Red Panda, following a cookie recipe, following a wistul essay about a young woman, Paul McCartney, Woodstock, and remembered youth. And again, because Emily is an artist and zine veteran of at least fifteen years, the clip art is well chosen, the photographs look good, and the overall aesthetic has that same intelligent but teasing quality as the zine's contents."

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