Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
writing as personal and collective knowledge production by the “female post-colonial cultural Other (particularly the Chicana/mestiza).”
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
Most of Alexandra's happy memories were as impersonal as this one; yet to her they were very personal.
Willa Sibert Cather • O Pioneers!
She was always enamored of someone and could not live otherwise.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The half-life of love is forever.
Junot Díaz • This Is How You Lose Her
What’s as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarred by her own.
Rebecca Makkai • I Have Some Questions For You: 'A perfect crime' NEW YORKER
By the time she was done with all of the refrigerators, the apartment was filled with the bass chorus of all the motors, a low, confident hum that to Rina was the sound of safety.
Ken Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
grabbed me