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Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
When she called Kayla “fat and blundering,” I wasn’t sure if she was really talking about Kayla or about me. Sometimes I felt like she was laughing at me right to my face, like she and herself had become the “us” and I was the “them,” and the joke was that I didn’t know who was who. I figured that her comment was some kind of setup. She was trying
... See moreMelissa Broder • Milk Fed: A Novel
I invented reasons why it was essential for me to stay instead at the Beverly Wilshire.
Joan Didion • The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)
Inelegantly and without my consent, time passed.
Miranda July • No One Belongs Here More Than You
Maybe she was the ghost she had always imagined herself to be.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
The governess appeared, quiet as the grave, as is her wont and her domain, pretending her job is to keep me from dying, when actually it is to keep me from living, at least outside her control. We share the worry that I am secretly a loser, a latent embarrassment, even back in the day when I could still sneeze or cough without tiny bladder control
... See moreAnne Lamott • Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
She had a proprietary way of admiring other people’s possessions, as if all good taste were in some measure a tribute to herself.