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G Scott Barbieri
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“The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.”
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genealogies for weird fiction in the age of extinction.
This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris... See more
This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris... See more
Elvia Wilk • Death by Landscape
proselytizers
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Scott Hoffmann
@scotthoffmann
Edmund Wilson,
David Sedaris • Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
Scott Alexander: The Prophet Who Wasn’t
a scattered set of idle thoughts almost but not quite cohering into a satisfying whole
Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our day—compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics. Had he wanted to, he would have... See more
