Jenni is Assistant Editor of The Curator as well as a regular contributor. She is also a freelance writer and homemaker, inspired by "the quotidian mysteries" (especially laundry and liturgy). She left college and spent five years working for an independent music company. That decision worked out fairly well, but she might finish at The University of Houston one of these days. Her writing thus far includes Wunderkammer, Comment, The Sustainable Scoop, various interviews and reviews, and her blog, Dreams of Genevieve.
Jenni and her drummer-husband, Johnny, work from their suburban home and supervise two cats. She lives for creative outings in the heart of her city such as The Menil, Greek food, bookstores, and coffee shops. More housework would be accomplished if it weren't for the fact that books, periodicals, herbal coffee & tea, music, films, visual art, and Etsy occupy her thoughts to the point of distraction.
An interview with novelist Jeffrey Overstreet, whose next book, Raven’s Ladder will be released on February 16.
Photographs of our possessions and domestic patterns can be portraits, just like the photographs of our faces.
Pete Peterson’s new book is wonderfully imaginative – both in its storytelling, and in its publication.
Annie Dillard’s classic Pilgrim at Tinker Creek inspires a budding writer to really, truly see.
One couple’s liturgy of the neighborhood – in Houston.
I sort of loathe reading most accounts of history and politics. History and politics are two great humanity-shaping forces, and I recognize the importance of absorbing such information. But all too often, these accounts are poorly written: arid deserts of facts and dates, with no mention of stories of the actual people who lived out [...]
In “Glósóli,” Icelandic band Sigur Rós creatively fuses music and cinema, renewing the lost art of the well-made music video.
The Fall is a film of striking beauty that tells an imaginative story of truth.
When art only pitches its tent in the vast lands of modernism, it “belittles the complicated and powerful ideas of beauty” spoken in classical paintings.
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
-G.K. Chesterton
When I was three, I liked to scatter my mom’s magazines on the floor, sit in the mess, and flip each glossy page. She figured out early that I was the literary type who needed [...]