Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
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Susan Minot • Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
Her memories ebbing and flowing like the tide.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
they were still young enough to understand time in semesters
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Jenny Offill’s brilliant Dept. of Speculation
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Frank Norris’s ungainly naturalist novel McTeague in the former and to T. S. Eliot’s cryptic “The Waste Land” in the latter.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
I allowed this one to grow organically, like coral: a new paragraph or profile here, a “Things to Try” section there.
Helen Sword • Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
then at intervals after, as the air rusts it brown.