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Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships, titled Ill Feelings, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021.


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Ill Feelings

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Issue No. 19

Alice Hattrick

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Issue No. 19

My mother recently found some loose diary pages I wrote in my first year of boarding school, aged eleven, whilst she was clearing out...

Art

February 2016

'Look at me, I said to the glass in a whisper, a breath.'

Alice Hattrick

Art

February 2016

Listen to her. She is telling you about her adolescence. She is telling you about one particular ‘bender’ that...

Susanna Moore’s memoir, Miss Aluminum (2020), takes its title from a trade show at the New York Coliseum in the late 1960s, where a 20 year old Moore, wearing a silver dress, silver stockings, and silver high heels, carrying a silver trident made out of cardboard tubes wrapped in tinfoil and pasted with silver glitter, handed out brochures advertising the benefits of aluminium masts and hulls After the trade show, she goes to a dinner, still silver from head to toe: ‘The men on either side of me, both in blue yachting blazers with crests on the pockets, were polite but not particularly thrilled to be sitting next to a dazed twenty year old girl with streaks of glitter on her face’    Moore’s memoir is about what it was like to be that dazed twenty year old girl, beautiful and brittle, whose glittering outer shell did a mostly adequate job of obscuring the messy reality of her childhood and adolescence The oldest of five children, Moore grew up rich and happy-ish in Hawaii, with a troubled, glamorous mother and a distantly benevolent physician father The relative peace of her childhood ended when she was 12, with the abruptly shocking death of her mother and her father’s hasty remarriage to a vicious, wealthy woman with a child of her own   Moore ran away from Hawaii and her stepmother as soon as she was able She became a successful model and then a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, attended dinner parties with Audrey Hepburn and went on holiday with Joan Didion She also became a celebrated writer, the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction, all of them written with an elegance and a lucid precision that seems to sit almost at odds with the expansive messiness of her themes Her first three novels – My Old Sweetheart (1982), The Whiteness of Bones (1989) and Sleeping Beauties (1993) –  are set in the Hawaii that Moore grew up in, with protagonists whose backgrounds have a lot in common with her childhood and adolescence In the Cut

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships,...

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Art

July 2014

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses and their extensions. In his...

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Issue No. 16

Scroll, Skim, Stare

Orit Gat

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Issue No. 16

1.   This is an essay about contemporary art that includes no examples. It includes no examples because its...

Interview

March 2017

Interview with Rodrigo Hasbún

Enea Zaramella

Rodrigo Hasbún

TR. Sophie Hughes

Interview

March 2017

Rodrigo Hasbún (born Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1981) has published two novels and a collection of short stories; he was selected...

Prize Entry

April 2017

The Critic of Tombs

Ethan Davison

Prize Entry

April 2017

Emilia came to Tombs [1] in the twelfth year of the interregnum. It was the first time in history...

 

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