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The State of Romantasy
At least with the little books, and the amount of prep they require, I have the time and space to really get into the character of someone who truly believes things will be okay.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
My host was a young man who ran a literary series. He was a lovely guy, single-handedly bringing all kinds of authors to Tulsa, and what’s more, getting Tulsans to come see the authors. You can get authors to go anywhere, to the ends of the earth, to Tulsa even; it’s getting their audience to leave the house that’s difficult.
Claire Dederer • Love and Trouble
Lillian Li • An introduction to Bilibili
This book is not written by someone at the very pinnacle of where she wants to be.
Molly Beck • Reach Out: The Simple Strategy You Need to Expand Your Network and Increase Your Influence
Sarah McNally considers herself a humble bookseller while also being the founder and owner of an ever-expanding empire, McNally Jackson, now likely the third-largest buyer of books in the city, after only Barnes & Noble and the Strand. She is a thumb on the scale of cultural life in the city. She hosts several book groups at the stores and privately runs several more. Hang around literary circles long enough and word will reach you that she is reading "Middlemarch" with Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy and has read Clarice Lispector with David Byrne and Esther Perel. Her New York is a place where we are all only one read away from our best selves, lacking only the space to dig in. She is there to provide. “I want people to know that they can trust us with their reading life, that this is not a sloppy nor commercial project,” she said with characteristic fervor. "I am working at the limits of my ability and doing so for what I believe is a good cause: the life of the mind in New York City." Link in bio. Photo: @jeremy_liebman
instagram.comThat night I eat a giant plate of pasta at the hotel bar for dinner and drink a martini and text with old friends. I sit on a couch in the lounge, half reading Mary Karr’s On Memoir and half watching people who are inexplicably younger than me living lives there is now no chance of me ever knowing except in this one little moment that I am watching
... See moreJessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
You can’t just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?