Summer Brennan

Journalist and Author, Paris, France

Summer Brennan is an American journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta and Scientific American, among others. She is the author of The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America (2015), High Heel (2019) and The Parisian Sphinx (Mariner Books, forthcoming 2023). She lives in Paris, France.

Written by Summer Brennan

Painting of three nude women indoors with a park scene outside the window. Pointillist style with muted pastel colours.

The vibrating beingness of Seurat’s pointillist paintings

The pointillist paintings of Georges Seurat have a blurred, vibrating beingness that is a visual manifestation of emotion

by Summer Brennan