I found this whole book fascinating! The author’s even most ordinary item/story had me entranced. What an extraordinary person and life well lived! Great concept for a non-memoir memoir.

A wonderful book. Highly recommended. You will enjoy reading it. Written in a very engaging prose. Nowhere would you feel being stuck or bored. Pick it up if you get a chance. A wonderful art book. Thanks to the author for a review copy.

I was expecting this to be less of a memoir and more of a discussion of stuff and why it was important and how it fit into and helped shaper her life. Instead it was more of a "here's a memoir and some stuff that goes along with it." Still though, she had an interesting and important life and I was glad to read about it.

I wanted to love this book. From the title ~ Stuff: Instead of a Memoir ~ I imagined a book filled to its margins with detailed photos of the author’s collections, objects, arrangements, decor. I hoped for a feast of a book to relish; light on captions, heavy on eye candy. There are certainly a number of photographs scattered throughout but most are small, and generally totally overwhelmed by verbiage heavy pages, verbiage that smacks of memoir. For those close to the author, her stories are probably meaningful and memorable but they did not capture my interest. Because I initially read on Net Galley I decided to give it a second look ~ an actual physical copy at my library in case I was missing out on some publishing nuance that would change my opinion. My opinion is the same. However, if you prefer traditional memoirs with a plenitude of names and dates and chronological event sequencing, you may like it. Three stars because I do appreciate big square books.

A true gem of a book by the artist Lucy R.Lippard.Sharing with us her memories opening her home featuring Thecutest objects in it her collections as someone who loves to peek in to people’s private possessions read about their histories this was a unique fantastic read.#netgalley #stuff

Imagine walking through your home and telling the stories behind all of your belongings. I love hearing about people's special connections with different items and I found this "anti-memoir" so interesting. I read this on my color tablet so was able to see the photos and illustrations, but this book really should be experienced in its physical form.

A beautiful book by art writer Lucy Lippard. Part memior/biography, part scrapbook. It is so well put together and written. She describes various things in her home and tells stories about things/events/people/places that were apart of her life. Beautifully photographed and organized. Definitely a have to buy book for my art classroom.

Review: This was very much also a history book or a memoir with a lot of great photos. A very person account of the authors life that I enjoyed but will be enjoyed more by those who know her or are closer in age to her and may have lived similar experiences.
Recommended For: Those who want a historical memoir… also this will be a way more beautiful book in print then ebook.

This book was not what I expected. I love books about old houses, people who fix them, stuff they find in them. I thought this would be a different take on that theme, perhaps it was, but it came across to me as a catalog of the author's "stuff" as if she were listing it for sale, complete with pictures. I thank NetGalley and New VIllage Press for the advance read.

I think I must have misunderstood what this book was meant to be. I really thought this was going to be a unique take on a normal memoir, with tonnes of pictures and little text, with the pictures of "stuff" telling the story... It's actually just a normal, short autobiography with photos added and still plenty to read. I didn't read it as it's not for me but I did appreciate how each image was numbered and you could easily find it within the story.

Gorgeous and fascinating memoir by the American art writer and activist Lucy R. Lippard. The author tells her life's stories through the paraphernalia she has collected. Lucky for the reader, it's good stuff. Readers interested in memoir, and/or the Conceptual and Feminist Art movements of the 1960s-1980s will appreciate this. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.