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Not in the Mood: Essays

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Imitation Intimacy: Poems

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Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund
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She touches on nearly every fear and nightmare I have for life in a way that's unsettling and feels real for the characters. I hope these stories can act as training wheels for how to respond with resiliency in my own life, even if the characters don ...more
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She touches on nearly every fear and nightmare I have for life in a way that's unsettling and feels real for the characters. I hope these stories can act as training wheels for how to respond with resiliency in my own life, even if the characters don ...more
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Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
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Surprisingly snooze for a book titled Stranger Faces. I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness) and thought Serpell would write anything interesting. Instead she managed to ruin both Hitchcock’s Psycho and Herzog solely through her own “rather self- ...more
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The House Is (Not) a Prison by Colin Ripley
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I wish these books would just be direct, like Horror in Architecture.

Idk what this is trying to do, but the vague narrative thing wasn't doing it for me. Unless you're Carmen Machado doing In the Dream House, I'm not going in, which is too bad becaus
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Open Socrates by Agnes Callard
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gurl, when did you get so tedious!! I loved aspiration when no one knew who she was but this one is thick with block quotes and delves into totally superfluous sections, for example, with using the Iliad. why?? maybe the new Yorker profile got to her ...more
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Open Socrates by Agnes Callard
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The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac
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holy shit i love how many reviews this has and how high the ratings are. mine is actually 4.5 but 5 for the star power.

takes more than talent and skill to write a character like Aleksy from the first person, damn. also appreciate the narrative form,
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