Maybe Baby - great personal essays
Why Is This Interesting? - oddball little histories
[SIC] Weekly - links to everything on the internet
Personal Canon - great book and movie recos
Desiderata Oblongata (gotta plug my own!) emerging artists for emerging collectors
Feb 5, 2025
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All things are too small - Becca rothfeld
Kind mirrors ugly ghosts - Claire donato
Essays and fiction - Brad philips
Tonight I’m someone else - Chelsea hodsen
There’s a series called best American essays - they do one every year it’s a good place to read a bunch of different stuff and authors and then find more comprehensive collections of the ones you like most
Aug 7, 2024
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one of my forever favs have read nothing like it / punky techno feminist dystopian
“kitchen-sink realism, told from the perspective of the one stuck doing the dishes.”
explores relationships / gender / desire / detachment / sucker punch pop song / wildly clever n devastatingly prophetic
Alien Daughters Walk Into The Sun - Jackie Wang
“An almanac of extreme girlhood”
abolition/underground/biking across countries/accidentally falling into success
Not so much a collection of short stories but diary entries, tumblr posts, zine archives, “essays“, poems
Contents titles are: The Hard-Femme years / The Punk House Years/The Desert Years/The Getting-My-Shit-Together-Years/
I also remember enjoying Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson!
Apr 20, 2024
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The Sluts - Dennis Cooper
not a novella but I read it in one night so maybe that counts. i have never forgotten it and i will always recommend it.
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
whimsical/surreal/funny/heartbreaking short stories by an incredible artist.
Confabulations - John Berger
a collection of discursive essays and observations from an incredible mind. Also rec Ways of Seeing.
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Jan 1, 2025
Top Recs from @jennymontgomery
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An aggregate search for vintage clothes. Pulls from Ebay, Etsy, Real Real, Poshmark, Grailed, possibly others, but i see those the most frequently. All through one search, one website (there's an app as well). The filters work well and you can set alerts. It's amazing.
Mar 25, 2024
Some music journalists put together a list of 1001 albums to hear before you die, they've revised it a few times in the decades since it came out. Someone made a website that randomly generates a new album from that list every day (you can google the list to get a little taste). You can set up a group and the people in it all get generated the same album. I have a small group of friends who have become very dedicated to the practice. It's nice to have just a little pressure to finally sit down and listen to some of the all time classics. It's really great when it's a day that's an album you already love. And it's an interesting mental exercise to listen to an album that you really don't like (somehow this doesnt seem to have effected my spotify algo too much) Whenever we're together we end up discussing the most recent ones. It's been a nice addition to my life individually, and i was pleasantly surprised to see how often we end up talking about them when we're together.
Mar 27, 2024
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