Status Updates From (Th)ings and (Th)oughts

There once lived a woman named X. At thirty she still didn’t know how to earn a living, network…be the first to end a relationship…X couldn’t see the point of creative nonfiction and could hardly read books…For five years straight, laboriously and through sheer force of will, she read only Andrey Platonov, because everything else only skimmed the surface of her consciousness and never penetrated her soul.

More serendipitous readings. What are the odds of encountering, 15 minutes apart, ‘tzimtzum’ in a story in this book and tsimtsum in the introduction to Christian Lehnert’s book of poetry ‘Wickerwork’ translated from German by Richard Sieburth. Randomly selected from recent subscription arrivals.