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a brief review.
Jul. 1st, 2004 01:04 pmyesterday i received my copy of full tilt #2: dancing away from home, by megan/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nevers, and i just finished reading it. it is 39 pages of writing about her life and experiences as a young dancer at Virginia School of the Arts (VSA), a residential high school. if you have ever been fascinated by boarding school stories or the world of dance (as i have), or even if you just know about nostalgia and its strange effect on memory, i would highly recommend this zine. her musings on the personal, social, and academic particulars of the school are very interesting; i especially liked the illustrations of the standard hairdos and attire. the mix of anecdote with facts, recollections, and present-day analysis of hard-to-categorize memories and feelings makes for a very readable, enjoyable slice of memoir narrative.
my copy (from the first printing) has a sewn binding, and is printed on fine paper with quite a few photocopied pictures and illustrations, with a very classic, neat and pleasing text layout (she notes it was "inspired by an 1883 art exhibit catalog of J. McNeil Whistler". ordering info is here if you're interested. the zine was created as part of a 48-hour zine challenge, but it has the look and feel of a much more robust, edited, & well-considered zine than you would think the time constraint allows for.
nevers, and i just finished reading it. it is 39 pages of writing about her life and experiences as a young dancer at Virginia School of the Arts (VSA), a residential high school. if you have ever been fascinated by boarding school stories or the world of dance (as i have), or even if you just know about nostalgia and its strange effect on memory, i would highly recommend this zine. her musings on the personal, social, and academic particulars of the school are very interesting; i especially liked the illustrations of the standard hairdos and attire. the mix of anecdote with facts, recollections, and present-day analysis of hard-to-categorize memories and feelings makes for a very readable, enjoyable slice of memoir narrative.my copy (from the first printing) has a sewn binding, and is printed on fine paper with quite a few photocopied pictures and illustrations, with a very classic, neat and pleasing text layout (she notes it was "inspired by an 1883 art exhibit catalog of J. McNeil Whistler". ordering info is here if you're interested. the zine was created as part of a 48-hour zine challenge, but it has the look and feel of a much more robust, edited, & well-considered zine than you would think the time constraint allows for.
