The Golden Notebook
Four notebooks for the parts of a life that will not cohere, and a fifth that tries to join them. Lessing own preface is impatient with how it got read.
Anna Wulf keeps four notebooks to hold the parts of a life that will not cohere, covering politics, Africa, love and fiction, and a fifth that tries to join them. Lessing’s 1962 novel was read as a feminist landmark; her own preface is impatient with that reading, and is worth the price of the book on its own.
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Maria Popova
In the preface to her 1962 classic The Golden Notebook (public library), she relays her advice to young people about how to read for maximum illumination:
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