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Thoroughly enjoying this one!!!

The story “an endless, soundless loop” is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. This is an excellent book. Very sad, funny, and beautiful.

This book is a beautiful confirmation of what it is to be human, against the backdrop of our time and the *gestures vaguely,* associated horrors. You don’t write this without walking life uphill both ways and in the rain. This book is a testament to the surreal beauty of noticing the small things, sweating the big stuff, and enduring, despite it all. 10/10, I will be reading this again, and soon.

This book is insane… and very very good

Loving this collection of stories! Keeps pulling me back to the forest IRL 😊

The essay “How to Do the Right Thing” is one of the most agonizing, soul crushing, sad, and well written things I’ve ever read. Aiden Arata deserves to be in the conversation for greatest modern essayist. Didion, DFW, Baldwin, Sontag, Green… and Aiden fucking Arata. That’s the list. Wowza…

This is the sort of book where after reading, you know you’ll be reading every other thing they create, forever.

Everyone in this book sucks so bad lmaoooo. Not one redeemable character yet. 77 pages until DNF, oofta

Unless this book begins to include a viable framework forward, this is meaningless. We are too far gone to be this optimistic. I don’t see how any of this is possible under the current political framework. Time has ground me into a pessimist. This is pipe dream stuff - the oxygen masks repelling from above as the plane falls towards earth.

Review of the essay titled, On Vibing:
Beautiful, relatable, and devastating. Weird to see someone else write what you couldn’t admit to feeling. Oof.

Cool ideas. I put the odds of any of this materializing at .000000001%. The enemy of these ideas is insurmountable propaganda, moneyed interests, gerrymandering and various political riggings. This is pipe dream stuff. This is the oxygen masks coming down as the plane hurtles towards the earth in an inescapable arc that was predestined many years ago. Pretty thoughts and ideas will make you feel better before impact.

The essay “America Online” was so cringe inducing that I wanted to vomit reading it. But also, I was alive during that time in history, and the story told in the essay was pretty much EXACTLY how it felt to be young then. This was my face reading it: 😬😬😬 Liking this read so far, although it is sooooo cringe a lot of the time, and like “millennial trying to be an edgy hipster in 2010” vibes