Sublime
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These stories are seeds. It’s our deepest wish that they land in fertile ground to sprout and spread.
Melissa K. Nelson • Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future
“I’ll get you one. My treat.” Easy to feel magnanimous, another round on 223.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
I took the wheel. We cruised past small islands, families of pink roseate spoonbills, garbage tankers swarmed by seagulls, fields of grass and wolfberries, and I realized it was not that remarkable for a person to understand what another person needed.
CJ Hauser • The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
(She was, what, thirty-five? In that moment, I found her thrillingly jaded.)
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
Another thing she had torched.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
senselessly, I mumbled, “You can leave the mollusks.”
Curtis Sittenfeld • Romantic Comedy: The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick by the author of RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE
the world winnowed to this immediate moment.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
She is proof that there is nothing that cannot happen to someone. That the world doesn’t need permission, that there is no novel evil it won’t embrace.