PR: Ella Fleck

Ella Fleck (@fleels) is an artist and writer based in London.

Ella Fleck (@fleels) is an artist and writer based in London. She works with infiltration and sensory installations. Her work has been exhibited globally such as in the UK, Lithuania, USA, Japan etc. Her first book, Spray, was published with Season 4 Episode 6 this year.

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1. The last thing you finished reading
   The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras. I read it very quickly after a friend recommended it. It felt like a text adventure but you don’t have any agency or choice. I loved it. You do this you say that you you you.

   

2. Next on your list

   A Voice and Nothing More by Mladen Dolar and I just started On Breathing by Jamieson Webster and love it so far.

3. Something on your list but you never begin

   Several self help books………………………………………………………………….??

4. Something in which you have no interest

   If it is boring!! I’ve tried to make myself be interested in so many boring books, just like I used to force myself to listen to boring music, and it’s never worth it. I’m too old now and have too much TikTok brain to gaslight myself into reading something just because I think I should unfortunately.

   

5. Something you never forget

   An ex boyfriend’s diary. Oops…

6. Conditions in which you read best

   The first week after my period has finished, in the morning, if the weather is bad, sleepy but not so sleepy that I’m falling asleep, once I read straight after a hypnosis session and that was perfect.

7. Conditions in which you read most often

   On my phone, in bed, on a bus, in the park, under the desk at my secretarial job.

   

8. Conditions in which you cannot read

   In fluorescent lighting, with loads of noise (my dad played a lot of punk music growing up)

9. A favourite genre, form, theme

   Monologues

10. A favourite book cover

    

11. Do you method read

    I like annotating and reading with a pencil, I feel like when I underline things or write notes or draw in the margins it helps the text reach my brain. Even if that means I’ve underlined the whole book.

    

12. Do you have any books that are prized possessions

    Yes, two old National Geographic fairytale anthologies from the 60s, a Japanese magazine called “Ballet Fantasy” and a copy of Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004: The Joy of Cooking.

13. Open up a text and copy a line at random

    “Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him – / Tell him the page I didn’t write;”

    [— Emily Dickinson]

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