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Ryan Berger
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Ryan Berger
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bookshelves:
currently-reading,
essays,
new-york,
nonfiction,
travel-writing,
wip-nola,
wip-sleep,
sleeze-lit
progress:
(page 37 of 288)
"Taking a brief detour from E.B. White for a different look at New York and WOW. This isn’t exactly what I was looking for when I went in but it’s compelling in its own right. Bring back subtext to essays!!!!!!!!
I thought the illustrations would be kind of whatever but they’re absolutely gorgeous and so charming.
New York is a beach town baby" — Jul 26, 2026 07:06AM
"Taking a brief detour from E.B. White for a different look at New York and WOW. This isn’t exactly what I was looking for when I went in but it’s compelling in its own right. Bring back subtext to essays!!!!!!!!
I thought the illustrations would be kind of whatever but they’re absolutely gorgeous and so charming.
New York is a beach town baby" — Jul 26, 2026 07:06AM
progress:
(page 20 of 368)
"I'm charmed! Enchanted! Oh what a delight. Multiple sentences already leaped right into my heart. "A man can be launched, or catapulted, into the Christmas tree business quite by surprise." I mean come ON" — Jul 23, 2026 05:26PM
"I'm charmed! Enchanted! Oh what a delight. Multiple sentences already leaped right into my heart. "A man can be launched, or catapulted, into the Christmas tree business quite by surprise." I mean come ON" — Jul 23, 2026 05:26PM
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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