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“Stumbling down the streets of three different cities, the same crooked body, the same red face.”
― The Whole Night Coming Home
― The Whole Night Coming Home
“She reminded me of a tulip, almost, the way she bent forward at the waist to hand me a lighted joint.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Here it was, then: the true start of that other road which-like a spool of yellow ribbon—would soon unwind across the whole of this beautiful poppy-filled landscape.”
― Wish Her Safe at Home
― Wish Her Safe at Home
“Despite all manner of degradation, humans stubbornly resist their own erasure. They refuse the role that fascists have written for them. They mock their oppressors. They create and love.”
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
“Creating herself. Creating themselves. The performance of it. The confusion of it. The pleasure of it...Making a life. Making a life with love in it. Creating a body with no shame in it...Creating a body of work. That no one else could have written.”
― My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
― My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Julia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Julia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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813 books
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925 books
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348 books
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505 books
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159 books
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199 books
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66 books
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