so there’s this vanity fair article this month. “How Jackie O Played Matchmaker to Two of America’s Greatest Minds.” it has unsettled me and i’m not entirely sure why so let’s dig in…
Category Archives: jackie
the mixed blessing of newly processed papers: the nancy tuckerman files of the jacqueline kennedy onassis collection at the jfk library (emotions by britney)
so this was terrifically exciting for about five minutes.
NEW THINGS!!!! COMING OUT OF THE VAULT. Continue reading
jackie o + santa
22 november 1963: jackie (pics), koestenbaum (words)
“There’s a metaphoric equivalence between our retrospective glances toward Jackie in 1963 and Jackie’s own movement onto the back of the car, an instant obsessively replayed. Continue reading
a stream of consciousness response to this 1976 photo of jackie onassis and the mccartneys
the celebrity after-image (jackie, dickie, lauren, joan: obituaries, photos, + the age of aging anxiety)
i’ve repeatedly banged on and on and on about how this is the image of jackie most often used in the press since her death in 1994.
dear famous person: a guide to protecting your posthumous privacy in 10 easy steps
writing around hillary rodham clinton
it’s slowly dawning that i’m maybe going to spend my adult writing career writing around hillary rodham clinton. (as opposed to my juvenile writing career which was all about horrible poetry and civil war novels.)
by this i mean writing about a trilogy of female lives that i see as being deeply embedded in the issues HRC raised for me as a teenaged girl. so HRC is there without my actually writing about her. because i don’t want to write about her. because, this many years removed from the 1990s, hillary hurts.
jackie onassis @ grand central (emotions via britney spears)
and i realized i’ve just totally glossed over the father leonard letters as though they never happened, but they bring up all manner of biographical/historical/ethical brouhaha so i’ma pretend just a little longer like that’s not a pressing thing we need to discuss.
hey, instead, let’s talk about how grand central is recognizing jackie. and let’s use britney to get in touch with our emotions. Continue reading
bang on (jackie, dead people’s sex lives and: america, WHY?!)
so jackie’s in the news again, maybe you heard?
and not for the father leonard letters either…
an alarming life 
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