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filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
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Lisa Taddeo • Animal: A Novel
"Against Interpretation"
Against Interpretation is an essay by Susan Sontag that criticizes the prevailing emphasis on interpreting and analyzing works of art, arguing for a focus on experiencing and appreciating art for its own sake.
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Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
The notebook is not an end, but a means.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
There’s a contradiction, not quite buried, in the way the essay characterizes the sick person’s experience of language
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.