Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
daughter? Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
In her book Create Dangerously, Edwidge Danticat writes of the “floating homeland” of the diaspora.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aplaceforwriters/p/navel-gazing-a-space-for-outsiders
the tall weed gets cut.
Barbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
antediluvian
Barry Eisler • The Killer Collective
He and his wife had split up, yet he was still somehow part of her family.
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Gulchekhra, our “host mother”—they really called her that, as if we were tapeworms—came outside.
Elif Batuman • The Possessed
They were lured into a long game of appeasing and accommodating, giving up one inch after another of who they were in order to win that grand prize of being allowed to live.