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Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a note book. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going throu
... See moreJoan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
superfluous.
Anna Kavan • Ice (Penguin Modern Classics)
Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Sea of Tanquility by Emily St. John Mandel
It is astonishing how many experts there seem to be nowadays whose mission in life is to lecture us about the perils of pleasure. Scarcely a week goes by without some ominous pronouncement about the price we must pay for our brief moments of indulgence. Even moderation, which used to be an acceptable excuse for the beef on your plate or the wine in
... See morePeter Mayle • French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew (Vintage Departures)
Such pronounced and lasting changes in the personalities of adults are rare.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor