Status Updates From That's Not a Feeling

"The bigger houses will always get the chance to publish amazing stuff, but a certain brand of amazing book seems increasingly beyond their capacity to pursue. And that's where you and Graywolf and Melville come in. Don't freak out or anything, but you're increasingly holding nothing less than the fate of serious American writing in your collective hands." (349) Tom Bissell. Serious American writing. Sigh.

"...I walked through to the living room. There wasn't a lot of furniture—a couch, three chairs, a table—but it seemed solid and comfortable. I had the sense I often had at home, moving around my house at night. The furniture seemed to be different at night, as if it didn't exist for human purposes then. It felt like I had intruded on a den of large, quiet animals breathing softly in their sleep." (326-327)

273-280 Aubrey's speech.. 🤤🤤

220-223 (sh) "If New Girls saw the scars she had left all over herself and asked her why she'd done it, she wouldn't have any reason to give them. It was just something she did, but never too deep. It was something anyone could do." (222)!!!

Part Two

"If faculty members had known to look, they might have found pages from The Decameron smuggled into restricted dorms, stuffed under mattresses...As the season wore on, boys and girls who ran away took their favourite parts with them, so that the box of books that had arrived at the beginning of the school year was slowly dispersed, piece by piece, to distant corners of the campus and around upstate New York."