I love Solnit 🥰
Susan Sontag - Illness as Metaphor, On Women Ling Ma - Bliss Montage Lucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning Women Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - Dictee Toni Morrison - Playing in the Dark
-No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
-Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
-The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
-How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa Alllllllllllll heavy hitters!
Joan Didion.
Camila Sosa Villada.
Mona Awad.
Ottessa Moshfegh.
Yukio Mishima.
Mary Gaitskill. Books I'm currently reading and liking so far: A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara. Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu. Hunger-Martín Caparrós. Books I've read in the past and liked: Mist-Miguel de Unamuno. Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada. Bunny-Mona Awad. Death In Her Hands-Ottessa Moshfegh. My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh. Animal-Lisa Taddeo. This Is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill. Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs. Cultish-Amanda Montell. So You've Been Publicly Shamed-Jon Ronson. Rosario Tijeras-Jorge Franco. Educated-Tara Westover. Maus-Art Spiegelman.
Anything by Vivian Gornick
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Make It Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison
Pop Song by Larissa Pham
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
Absolutely loved this uncanny collection of short stories. Ling Ma creates depth and discomfort in her characters so well, and creeps up on you with narratives that’ll leave you thinking. Severance (her novel) was also one of my favorite reads last year.
Late afternoon. Find your cat and lay down next to them. Kiss their little head. Close your eyes next to their furry little face. Drift into a dreamless sleep that is pure bliss. Awaken to screaming meows for dinner.
There’s something so satisfying about seeing local haunts and everyday places you know on screen 😌 Been in Seattle a handful of years now, and really taking in how beautiful the PNW can be through others’ eyes and stories. Also some major nostalgia goggles for 90s Seattle.
