“I often wondered why we couldn’t talk about the present, why the past held all the promise while the future sat before us like stagnant water.” (CW: suicide, light spoilers) Kristen Arnett is one of my favorite people to follow in the internet. Though Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) is her debut novel, she’s […]
Tag: Atmospheric
Love and Memoir: On T Kira Madden’s ‘Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls’ and Melissa Febos’ ‘Abandon Me’
Don’t miss this one, it is magic!
Monster Body, Miracle Body: ‘On Being Ill’ by Virginia Woolf
“…this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain, will soon make us taper into mysticism, or rise, with rapid beats of the wings…”
All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Clothing of Books’
There’s a word that comes to mind for me when I think about this, my first 5-star (and first backlist) read of 2019: serendipity.
Flung Out of Space: Amy Feltman’s ‘Willa & Hesper’ is a Complicated Queer Love Story for Our Time
A sprawling epic of internal growth, sparked by a love story.
‘The Orphan of Salt Winds’ by Elizabeth Brooks
Elizabeth Brooks’ The Orphan of Salt Winds review, from Tin House January 2019! Historical fiction, mystery, strong female characters, good stuff.