Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
For as long as she read the news, line by line and minute by minute, she had some say in what happened, didn’t she?
Patricia Lockwood • No One Is Talking About This: A Novel
Toughness rendered tender, even beautiful.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
It personalized death, the faculty said, it restored dignity to the undignified process of dying.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Olds still writes by hand, in cheap spiral-bound notebooks. When she’s really humming, she can fill a whole notebook in just a few days. Only a small fraction of this private writing will ever be published. Publication, for Olds, is not entirely the point. The act of writing itself, she insists, is fun —a physical discipline that sits somewhere bet... See more
Sharon Olds’s huge archive of thinking and feeling
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