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Diary of a Somebody

In the spring, before I began teaching and lost the capacity to read anything more robust than a play (no offense to plays), I read Isabel Waidner’s second novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility , whose eponymous protagonist has just won a prestigious literary prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. And yet the trophy itself eludes him: neon... See more

The Paris Review • Attention Required! | Cloudflare

He gave me that Rumi book when I left. I shoved it in my handbag, didn’t think much of it at first, but it crept up on me, like a street lamp.

Colum McCann • Let the Great World Spin

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

What a profound mystery it is to me, the vibrancy of presence, the realness of it, and then, gone.

Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir

When she called Kayla “fat and blundering,” I wasn’t sure if she was really talking about Kayla or about me. Sometimes I felt like she was laughing at me right to my face, like she and herself had become the “us” and I was the “them,” and the joke was that I didn’t know who was who. I figured that her comment was some kind of setup. She was trying