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Gilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
that part of normality here was this constant, unacknowledged struggle to see.
Anna Burns • Milkman
In Michelle Cliff’s “Notes on Speechlessness” she writes, “Speechlessness involves self-denial…to choose to express/to choose to express anger.”[1] I add in the margin: “and for me, to choose to express joy/to choose to feel/to choose to feel pleasure,” because both disappeared when language disappeared. I neglected life-sustaining joy because surv
... See moreCameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
‘one’s humanity is simultaneously shared and singular’ (Jackson, 2002: 142).
Steph Lawler • Identity: Sociological Perspectives
William had thought that he’d deadened himself to hope
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
loss of function liberates it from its relation to us.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
Nor did it ever stop women letting them go, the women who never went themselves, who stayed behind to look after the birthplace, the race, the property, the reason for the return.