Homesick for Another World – Otessa Moshfegh
We’re human, we’re fucked, how do we even love when the impulse yields nothing but disgusting spores because we’re breathing into the necks of garbage people: it’s 2017.
What one wants to hold onto gets its own language: that is a pretty fitting description of the form of the essay in Gladman’s hands.
PROBLEMS is hypnotic and dank, an intimate gurgle from a person to whom you have become so endeared you decode it. And you know it’s beautiful.
The Border of Paradise – Esmé Weijun Wang
Consider THE BELL JAR and GIRL, INTERRUPTED. Esmé Weijun Wang’s debut novel THE BORDER OF PARADISE is a different kind of narrative about mental illness.
Willful Disregard – Lena Andersson
How the casual communication becomes the unanswered text, how the crush becomes unrequited love — that is, defined by lack — how someone becomes themself, alone, that phenomena deserves a novel like WILLFUL DISREGARD.
I love to imagine a future in which a young trans writer can embrace this book as talismanic and important because it reflects something beautiful and singular.