Vlog: reading & writing in the woods

I read & wrote a lot of words while camping in the woods 🌳 Cooking on campfires! Trees! Swimming! Human experience as a landscape!

books:
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022)
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1949)
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud (2023)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Philip Boehm) (1971)

people:
@nathansnook

socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis

[kiranreader]

i need to read some Lispector asap!!! the appreciation you and nathan have for her work moves me!!!

[oliviaoliviaoliviaaa]

That segment where you explained the phone was propped up on a mossy tree and to frame it with what I assume is the exact spot was so charming and clever! Thank you for sharing your world and perspective. I’m reading Lispector because of you.

[casskrug]

love to hear you talk about lispector and make connections between your current reads!! i bought the besieged city recently but i think i want to tackle some of her other stuff first

[rebareads]

So brave of you to go camping for your first time amidst a busy summer! I love the full immersion into nature that is camping but I never sleep well so I think it’s impossible to come back fully rested!

I’ve been considering object/the having of things recently and your thoughts on “seeing” in the besieged city spoke to my ruminations.
And I just started Malina!!! Can’t wait to get into all your notes as I progress. :)

[thelefthandedreader]

I too enjoyed A flat Place…what I read of it. I didn’t finish it, but I at least immediately connected with the draw of vast landscapes. I am forever drawn to a desert landscape, an open field. The vastness expands my mind and sets things straight. I feel the same way being in the midst of giant mountains. Just as being at the ocean for some people

[nathansnook]

you apologizing to plants will always be my favorite thing

also, wonderful notes already on the Lispector! i've always been curious about mythology in her work and perhaps this makes sense here. if this is to be her plottiest book, the idea of mythology, "something greater than" would be interesting if we are to look at our female protagonist who does not have an interior life. curious to see how The Besieged City unfolds!

[Sean_neaS]

I just started my first Lispector, "The Passion according to G.H" I'm halfway though. Every page is amazingly introspective and poetic. "with the loss of humanity, I was coming orgiastically to taste the identity of things" That's just from the current page I'm on.

[TheLinguistsLibrary]

It's a Lispector thing, she loves mythology. Clarice's beloved dog was also called Ulysses, and Lucretia is a Roman heroine.

[joelharris]

👋I understand, Sophie . The Olympics, throngs and throngs of strangers huddled together in one city really to drool over muscles and youth, is not everyone's cup of☕ You're more of a quiet adventurer, seeking out woods trees and bees in the shires of New York State. I would have thought Mary Oliver be a better travel, or in your case, writer's companion. Oh well! You're a citizen of words, prose, worldly literature. I gather that much. It is as such💛🌻All the best for your writing residency. That's cool, jokes aside

[stephencharlton]

Hello, I think you are wonderful. Unfortunately my intellect is not strong enough or perhaps my mind is not attuned to yours. I wish you every joy and fulfilment,