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"“I wanted to talk to you about the first essay in the book, ‘Heart Museum.’ It’s one I can almost never get through in one sitting. It is sort of this big, bright crash course in Durga. It’s like…it’s miraculous. It’s all of these moments and memories and images and sounds, and you zoom in and out really really fast and sort of…it’s amazing to me.”"

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"“This Lowell Hardwick letters collection might actually warrant its own newsletter, but I thought of this quote from Lowell in it about Nail Salon today – ‘In the best art, as in life, all the blood-veins go to the heart.’”"

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""It’s FANTASTIC, you should read it, I kept reading it in public places and laughing out loud.”"

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""I recently read Cleanness by Garth Greenwell which I adored.”"

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"“Anyway, three or four years ago I had, like, my moment with short fiction…And Kurt Vonnegut - he’s way sassy, but I love that. Short fiction appeals to me because of the necessity of conciseness - that’s what writing songs is about, but times 20. I like people who can build something great and huge with a very limited amount of time or space. It’s difficult to do. Kurt Vonnegut is a good place to start if you haven’t read a lot of short fiction, because he’s fun and his humor is really black.”"

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"“Raymond Carver is definitely one [author who inspires me]. I have this thing with, like, words being in that perfect order, and you know exactly how they’re trying to make you feel. And the order of the words…just, like, slapping you in the heart: ‘Oh my gosh, I totally get it.’ And I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that.”"

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"“Sylvia Plath taught me not to shy away from discomfort…Never for a second would I put myself beside a genius like Sylvia Plath. I may have specific tastes but I’m not trying to be avant-garde with my approach or my music. I like indie [rock], pop and literature. I like to play with them but that doesn’t make me a genius.""

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""Totally delightful and gnarly and makes me want to eat at Prune!""

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"“That summer, while our skin burned, my friends and I sat on beaches reading The Uninhabitable Earth. I envisioned Antarctica slowly turning to slush, flooding the Southern ocean. The urgency I had once felt about making the trip south returned. I made phone call after phone call, got several dozen booster shots, and then it was happening – this dreamy musician was hitching a ride to the end of the world.”"

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