Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
I’ll hold all your terrific ugly.
Franny Choi • Floating, Brilliant, Gone
sadness as the consequence of too much plenty:
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The dismal self-loathing.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
It would be easier to see her living in a gingerbread house than a convent.
Chuck Palahniuk • Invisible Monsters Remix
In the Dead Girl Show, the girl body is both a wellspring of and a target for sexual wickedness.
Alice Bolin • Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
April 14, 1964 Dear Joseph Heller: A very terrible thing happened to me. I was born a girl. It would be O.K. if I were ugly or something or even startlingly unattractive, but as luck would have it, I’m gorgeous, occasionally. Here’s the thing. I wrote this fabulous