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four months on this platform and I still haven’t found my people :( my people: those who read, loved and can’t shut up about Jenny Odell’s How To Do Nothing.

chloé salmon substack.com

Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from "the New Yorker

Joseph Mitchell

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Lindy said nothing. She turned Rob’s sentences over in her mind, examining them one by one for truthfulness like a woman picking up grapefruit at the supermarket and checking each one for signs of softness and rot. She rejected all of them but the last. She guessed that was true. Rob probably hadn’t actually meant to go so far.

Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals

Jamie Morris

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I picked up Edwin Frank’s Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel thinking I might read a few chapters. But this is literary criticism that is itself literary—alive and strange and hard to put down. Frank’s selection is eclectic—of the thirty-two novels he covers, some are expected (James Joyce’s Ulysses ), some unexpected (H. G... See more

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In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in

Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

onerous

Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex

I deduced that Johanna was probably an Alice. You can learn a lot by observing how people hang out with their friends. She laughed like a hyena, and they were obsessing over some obscure book, and they were so raw and cute. I’d never been as intrigued by a human being before.

Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice

with curiosity and compassion.