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Into this fog slipped Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare . The novel, Butler’s third, is the story of Moddie, an overeducated and underachieving thirtysomething who, following a seismic breakup, abandons Chicago for her Midwestern hometown, where she tries to get a grip on her life. It’s a sharp book, with painfully real characters and perfectly pitche... See more
The Paris Review • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
“pluralize and specify.”
Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts
(It’s arguable that we could understand the institution of celebrity itself as similarly suspicious: despite the prevailing liberalism of Hollywood, the values of celebrity—visibility, performance, aspiration, extreme physical beauty—promote an approach to womanhood that relies on individual exceptionalism in an inherently conservative way.)
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
It’s one thing to argue that you belong—it’s another thing to actually believe it.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
posing girls and preening guys,
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller (Picador Collection)
Highfalutin.”
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: A Novel
My body has always given me away. Or maybe it’s the other way around.