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Happiness is a butterfly

I am excited for 2026. It will be full of goodness.

Substack

Anyone want to get drinks this week?

I’ve made some of my best friends on this app

He is like the best writer ever tbh

I think Dickens and I have a similar distaste for hypocrisy. Excited for Chuzzlewit to go to America.

Favorite poem so far, dedicated by Celan to his former girlfriend (and later Nobel prize-winner) Ingeborg Bachmann:

We belong together,
It’s as clear as summer rain,
Or else I’ll be alone forever,
My life so full of pain.

Choice passage from the great Joyce Carol Oates: “Rhea and Rhoda Kunkel: it was always Rhea-and-Rhoda, never Rhoda-and-Rhea, I couldn't say why. You just wouldn't say the names that way. Not even the teachers at school would say them that way.”
Masterful. Both establishes an unreliable narrator and belittles her for not knowing about alphabetical order.

This is my poem which the paris review rejected last year :/

She had eyes as deep as AriZona’s
and hair the color of purple Doritos.
I met her at the deli.
She left me on the Staten Island ferry.
Her breath smelled like Takis.

I guess I’m reading this anthology to find out what I did wrong. So far, no clue. The first piece, about the women who drops a baby, killing it on impact, was good.

“If you removed from Nino’s head the things he’s read, you wouldn’t find anything there.”

Wrong! Nino is cool.

Nino is so obviously better than her boyfriend, yet Elena seems to agonize between the two of them, strange.

I’m just like Lila

In the character of Briony Tallis, McEwan has shown the world a matte painting of pure evil.

This guy is a genius.

I love her. I could fix her.

Enjoying the reread, funny stuff.

This is the best ever book —gideon

This book is fine, just went to a great bday party (lituation) hope Eamon enjoys 23.