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Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
Ernest signaled the waiter to replenish the daiquiris. Looking at my littered plate, he gave me a puzzled look. “Why’d you leave the shrimp heads? That’s the best part.” He picked one up and crunched it happily. I crunched one but not happily.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop “Leaving One” by Ralph Angel “A Cat in an Empty Apartment” by Wisława Szymborska “Apples” by Deborah Digges “Michiko Nogami (1946–1982)” by Jack Gilbert “Eating Alone” by Li-Young Lee “The Potter” by Peter Levitt “Black Dog, Red Dog” by Stephen Dobyns “The Word” by Mark Cox “Death” by Maurycy Szymel “This” by Czeslaw
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
on and on about the differences between the New York City subway system and the London subway system, or texting him pictures of cats she said she was going to get and never did,
Lisa Ko • The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel
with his body, with his looks, with his antic backhand, with his choice of books, music, films, friends. He was okay with losing his prized Mont Blanc pen. “I can buy another one just like it.” He was okay with criticism too. He showed my father a few pages he was proud of having written. My father told him his insights into Heraclitus were
... See moreAndré Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
But, as Nagel knew, there are also things “about the world and life and ourselves that cannot be adequately understood from a maximally objective standpoint” but only from deep in the mud of the everyday mind. Among these are absorptions, immersions, and ecstasies of all sorts, for what is sometimes called a “flow state” involves an entirely
... See moreBecca Rothfeld • All Things Are Too Small
Sitting at a small table looking through our reflection in the window onto Flatbush Avenue, I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I’d seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person
... See moreBen Lerner • 10:04
And now here is my pocket Petrarch,