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Maggie’s destiny arrives one afternoon without a clarion call. It comes on cat feet, like everything else in the world that has the power to destroy you. She had
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
in little earfuls,
Mary Oliver • New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
ALEX MUST HAVE GONE SWIMMING—hard to imagine she’d gone in the dirty pool, the water probably half beer at this point—but how else had her hair gotten wet?
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
“Life with your father was never boring.” We raised our glasses. I could almost hear Dad chuckling at Mom’s comment in the way he always did when he was truly enjoying something. It had grown dark outside. A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.
Jeannette Walls • The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Everything passes, everyone around us dies: the people we love, the things we love, the world around us, our parents, our grandparents, our children, our spouse, our strength, our capacities, the redwoods of California, the skyline of New York—all of it is sliding away, all this perfection sinking into the earth. And we know this. We try to hold on
... See moreAlan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow—that, in short, we are all going.
John Green • Looking for Alaska
... See moreAnnie Dillard calls the writer’s life colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. That fits. But, as she also knows, there is another kind of color that can only be discovered three years down a writing hole. It is a subtle, nightly color; your eyes need time to adjust to the dark before you can see them. You wouldn't believe their beauty if I t
“The Big Ship” by Brian Eno
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
“There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or ... See more