<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:syn="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/">
  <channel rdf:about="http://pinboard.in">
    <title>Pinboard (jnchapel)</title>
    <link>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/public/</link>
    <description>recent bookmarks from jnchapel</description>
    <items>
      <rdf:Seq>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://defector.com/william-f-buckleys-bill-never-came-due"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6231/the-art-of-biography-no-4-hermione-lee"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/books/4939223/Eclipse--the-story-of-the-rogue-the-madam-and-the-horse-that-changed-racing.html"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/mant01_.html"/>
      </rdf:Seq>
    </items>
  </channel><item rdf:about="https://defector.com/william-f-buckleys-bill-never-came-due">
    <title>William F. Buckley's bill never came due</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-20T16:02:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://defector.com/william-f-buckleys-bill-never-came-due</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Insofar as I am able to relate to the man at all, it is in details like these. I too keep meaning to produce a work of heft and genius. I too am constantly on the verge of financial ruin because I find sums tedious and want to buy something nice for myself."]]></description>
<dc:subject>biography culture politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:96510aa0b2fa/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:biography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:politics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6231/the-art-of-biography-no-4-hermione-lee">
    <title>The Art of Biography No. 4, Hermione Lee</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-11T11:47:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6231/the-art-of-biography-no-4-hermione-lee</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["She was a highly intelligent and imaginative person who had grown up in a poor working-class family in London in the 1920s and had had to leave school at fifteen, and she deeply resented that fact. She should have been running a college. She was self-educated, really. So she wanted me and my sister to do the things that she hadn’t done, and she was also jealous of the fact that we were doing the things she hadn’t been able to do—go to university, work for a living, have a career. For women of my generation, that is a very common trope—our clever, thwarted mothers who didn’t have the opportunities we have."

Also: "You have to write as if everyone involved in the story is dead."

And: "There’s a wonderful quotation from Proust, which that great Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen uses. She puts it in her preface to The Last September. 'It is those periods of existence which are lived through carelessly, unwillingly, or in boredom, that most often fructify into art.' Isn’t it excellent that that can be the case. My friend Victoria Glendinning has a motto she uses, which I sometimes steal—'Nothing is wasted.' It’s a very reassuring and consoling idea, even if it isn’t always true. Think of those terrible phases in your life when you’re just grinding along, or you’re missing your way, or everything seems arid and disappointing. It helps if you can say to yourself, But something will come out of this."]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing life mothers memoir biography families women</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:53f8ba946609/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:mothers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:memoir"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:biography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:families"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:women"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/books/4939223/Eclipse--the-story-of-the-rogue-the-madam-and-the-horse-that-changed-racing.html">
    <title>Eclipse: The story of the rogue, the madam, and the horse that changed racing</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-15T23:03:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/books/4939223/Eclipse--the-story-of-the-rogue-the-madam-and-the-horse-that-changed-racing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Telegraph review of recently published Eclipse biography by Nicholas Clee makes the work sound as though it's a bit of modern Trollope, centered around a great horse, who was, even towards the end of his life, hard used: "In the end, even the mighty Eclipse became what can only be described as shagged out, and in the declining months of his 24-year-life was conveyed from mare to mare in what was almost certainly the first ever horsebox."]]></description>
<dc:subject>horseracing great-horses biography eclipse</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:1411320e8c85/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:horseracing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:great-horses"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:biography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:eclipse"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all">
    <title>Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting and Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-01T17:34:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[D.T. Max's exhaustive early review of DFW's life and work.]]></description>
<dc:subject>david-foster-wallace culture writing books literature biography depression essays</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:bef351f0b4c4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:david-foster-wallace"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:books"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:biography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:depression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:essays"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace">
    <title>The lost years and last days of David Foster Wallace</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-11T07:23:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>david-foster-wallace depression literature biography</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:c59ed2ea8e43/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:david-foster-wallace"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:depression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:biography"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/mant01_.html">
    <title>LRB - Hilary Mantel - Frocks and Shocks</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-20T21:07:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/mant01_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are some lives we read backwards, from bloody exit to obscure entrance, and Jane’s is one of them."]]></description>
<dc:subject>english-history biography tudors writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:c254acb4fedb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:english-history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:biography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:tudors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/t:writing"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
</rdf:RDF>