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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
parental euphemism
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
The Salt Eaters, the one to tell us writing was a tool for the revolution, that our task was to make revolution irresistible.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
I was intrigued, as a child, that a bottle could also be a woman. She had a job, this woman, holding syrup. But when it was all poured out, when she was empty and her job was done, she became something else.
Eula Biss • Having and Being Had
that it was all about hoarding vs. gobbling, or the necessity of choice when there is no middle way.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“They can condemn us to hunger but they cannot condemn us to starvation.”26