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ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
To truthfully write about race, I almost have to write against narrative because the racialized mind is, as Frantz Fanon wrote, an “infernal circle.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
schadenfreude.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
It was the same story all over New Jersey, in bars, bowling alleys, diners, places to live. I was always being forced to leave, silently, or with mutual imprecations. I very shortly became notorious and children giggled behind me when I passed and their elders whispered or shouted—they really believed that I was mad. And it did begin to work on my
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
My hurried movements caused silent alarms to ring in her head, telling her, Something’s fishy. It’s not that she was particularly perceptive; anyone watching me would have assumed the same.
