Angel Olsen tells us about the books she's been reading—women surrealists, history—to find solace and pass the time in self-isolation
Down Time is a Jezebel series in which we ask our favorite artists and authors what art, books, and activities they’re turning to in this moment of isolation and uncertainty. Musician Angel Olsen spoke to Jezebel about returning to favorite books and seeking historical perspective.When I was 17 I spent a good chunk of my time studying women surrealists out of my own interest. I’ve collected several books on Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.
, I’ve had that one for probably a decade. I’m really looking forward to diving back into that time because I didn’t know that it would be [a] sort of opening. It was like I read one book and then just kept reading about [them] and it’s affected my life, the way I think about characters, the way that I write.Then there’s this other book that I’ve been picking up and putting down and I think it’s pretty relevant right now,. It’s been available for a long time, but it’s separated into very concise chapters about history as we know it. It’s like your grandfather is reading to you before bed.
I feel like this is a time to be reflective and grateful for the small things in our lives. I think it’s also a really powerful moment that we’re all in, everybody in the world is thinking about the same thing. Energetically, when has that happened? When was the last time that that happened? We’re so far advanced [from] how we were in 1918, but now it’s this time where a lot is revealed about how corrupt the government is and how it’s always been that way.
I’m not going to write songs in the first two months of touring a record. But I’ll go through periods where I’m just watching films or I’m just reading about one particular artist or I obsess over a specific style of guitar playing. I don’t want to do anything else but little exercises thatdifferent exercises, [is] a way to get my mind to think differently. Sometimes you need to do something that has nothing to do with writing itself to create those doors and to create those changes.
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