Solomon’s protagonist does a good job of insulating herself from the outside world. This ensures that not much happens.
Letters offer both an emotional intimacy and an intellectual challenge that can be hard to resist.
An Adversary After Our Own Image
Could it be that we too want a portrayal of utopia in order to avoid civil strife, just like the eternally criticized Soviet regime?
Can you get your reader to say, OK, I’m in a dreaming mind at the moment, and this is what the mind is dreaming? If you can do that then a photograph can work and have no evidentiary function.
Apocalypse Baby – Virginie Despentes
Solving a missing person case is more a matter of waiting for that person to connect back to the grid, even for just a moment.
Alexis takes up notions of language and consciousness on a fundamental level, and what it means to have both or one without the other.
My desire to become an unlikely statistic drove me to torture a living animal. Or at least to experience its death in the most intimate way possible: inside my mouth.
Wallace has been transformed from a writer people were reluctant to take seriously, and who was deemed profoundly derivative of Pynchon, to a writer people fall over themselves to namecheck.
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary – Sarah Manguso
Reading this essay gives me hope that I will outgrow my fear of death.
Midnight in the Century – Victor Serge
Whether or not the arc of the universe bends towards justice, it might be better if we could hold onto the idea that it might. If we try to bend it that way, maybe it could.