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DEAR DIARY: For lock-and-key diarists and restaurant conversation eavesdroppers alike, a not-so-secret history of the diary and the people who writeand readthem

We know what a king eats in a day, what the inner world of a young girl in hiding looks like, and what it was like to be a Freedom Rider because of diaries. Whether carved into stone, penned in a crudely bound parchment book, or spoken into a camera for viewers around the world, records of human love, loss, genius, and grocery lists have been kept for thousands of years.

Our Diaries, Ourselves pays homage to the time-honored tradition of chronicling ones day, memories, and creativity. Longtime diarist and veteran journalist Betsy Rubiner invites the curious reader between the journal pages of beloved icons like Virginia Woolf and Taylor Swift. Rubiner tours Italys City of the Diary, Pieve Santo Stefano, which boasts a diary archive, museum, and annual festival. Through it all, she explores how diarieswhether kept by renowned figures or ordinary peopleoffer glimpses of life both vastly different and comfortingly similar to our own.

This book is a treasure trove of social history, feminist rebellion,and personal reflection on how keeping a diary shapes a persons experience of the world. Our Diaries, Ourselves is a celebration of the obscure and the mundane and the ephemeral. It reminds us of a uniquely human need that transcends time, language, and technology: to see and be seen, to be heard and understood and remembered.

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For lock-and-key diarists and restaurant conversation eavesdroppers alike, a not-so-secret history of the diary and the people who writeand readthem

This book is a treasure trove of social history, feminist rebellion, and personal reflection on how keeping a diary shapes a persons experience of the world. Our Diaries, Ourselves is a celebration of the obscure and the mundane and the ephemeral. It reminds us of a uniquely human need that transcends time, language, and technology: to see and be seen, to be heard and understood and remembered.

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A not-so-secret history of the diary and the people who writeand readthem, for lock-and-key diarists and restaurant-conversation eavesdroppers alike

Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virgina Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor Swift

We know what it was like to be an out lesbian in 19th-century England, what the inner world of a young girl in hiding looks like, and what the earliest internet users favorite websites were, in part, because of diaries. Our Diaries, Ourselves is a joyful deep dive into this time-honored tradition of preserving our love, loss, genius, and grocery lists.

From Marie Curie to Taylor Swift, this book illustrates how a persons experience of the world is shaped by the diaries they keep. Tour Italys City of the Diary, Pieve Santo Stefano, which boasts a diary archive, museum, and annual festival. Discover how women have used diaries for centuries as canvases for self-expression and as tools of resistance in a patriarchal society. Travel through time and across cultures, from renowned figures to ordinary people, for glimpses of their livesdifferent yet comfortingly familiar.

Our Diaries, Ourselves is a treasure trove of social history, feminist rebellion, and personal reflection. It celebrates the obscure and the mundane and the ephemeral. It reminds us of a uniquely human need that transcends time, language, and technology: to see and be seen, to be heard and understood and remembered.

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A love letter to the art of the diary and to the people who writeand readthem

Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor Swift

From Marie Curie to Taylor Swift, this book illustrates how keeping a diary helps us to understand ourselves and our world. Tour Italys City of the Diary, Pieve Santo Stefano, which boasts a diary archive, museum, and annual festival. Discover how women have used diaries for centuries as canvases for self-expression and self-care and as tools of resistance in a patriarchal society. Travel through time and across cultures, from renowned figures to ordinary people, for glimpses of their livesdifferent yet comfortingly familiar.

Our Diaries, Ourselves is a treasure trove of social history, feminist rebellion, and personal reflection. This book celebrates the vibrant and varied ways we live our lives and the stories we choose to tell about them. And it reminds us of a uniquely human need that transcends time, language, and technology: to see and be seen, remember and be remembered.

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A love letter to the art of the diary and to the people who writeand readthem

Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor Swift

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