Megan Nolan, From Her Novel Titled "Acts Of Desperation," Originally Published In March 2021

Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier.”

— Douglas Coupland, Player One

- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.

It's ridiculous how invested I am in this book after what's basically five chapters of exposition. How does Dostoevsky write like this. The ideas and characters introduced are just so interesting that I don't even care that these people haven't even talked yet. I am RIVETED

Anaïs Nin, from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

Russian Literature

Manhattan is a Lenape Word, Natalie Diaz | Winter Without You, Sarah Kay 

[ Text ID: It is December and we must be brave. / It is December and nobody asked if I was ready. ] 

Franz Kafka