The Magpie

Celia Paul, Lucien Freud and Zadie Smith’s distaste for saving forgotten muses.

The Magpie -

I mentioned my infatuation with Lou Andreas-Salome* in last week's Tarot of Songwriting. She was a disciple of Freud, one of the first female psychoanalysts, and a part-time lover/literary mentor to Rilke, among many others. For anyone interested in reading about her, I highly recommend Biddy Martin’s book Woman and Modernity, which covers a…