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Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
Britney Spears, initially glossed as a vapid, oversexed ingénue-turned-psycho, now seems perfectly sympathetic: the public required her to be seductive, innocent, flawless, and bankable, and she crumbled under the impossibility of these competing demands. In life, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston were often depicted as strung-out monsters; in
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Childhood is when you keep gaining, old age is when you keep losing. The Golden Years the PR people keep gloating at us about are golden because that’s the color of the light at sunset. Of course diminishment isn’t all there is to aging. Far from it. Life out of the rat race, but still in the comfort zone, can give the chance to be in the moment,
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“Easiest job in America,” we were told.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Menopause coinciding with the death of a family member has brought to me the lesson that to live, truly and completely, you have to be willing to let go. Of everything and everyone.
Miranda July • All Fours
Gertrude Stein as a writer was oft derided or despised by her contemporaries - “they hated that Stein had become a celebrity, but most of all they hated the way she brought their own seriousness into doubt” - p. 6, LRB, Devotion to the Cut, Adam Thirlwell.