short stories
dark, complex human relationships type shit
ennui
mostly takes place on the lower east side so nyc romanticism
quick read tbh would rec for anyone who‘s struggling to finish a book
Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo is a book of short stories about older women reckoning with aging that I, a gal who does not like short story collections has read twice. It is BITING.
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is about a woman with adult children who had a fling with a starlet and now lives on a cherry farm. It was really sweet—nothing groundbreaking but I‘m glad I read it.
The characters in Biography of X by Catherine Lacey seem ageless but are middle aged—a woman whose secretive but famous wife has just died goes on a journey to discover who she was. It’s set in a reimagined America where the south has cut itself off from the rest of the country. Very hard to put down!!
Lucy Sante, Elizabeth Hardwick, Natasha Stagg, Cookie Mueller, Eileen Myles, Deborah Levy, Maggie Nelson, Diane di Prima, so many non-fiction girl bosses here
