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and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.

D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

In his writing the hideous and the exquisite often coexist.

Rebecca Solnit • Orwell's Roses

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Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)

Houellebecq wore his biography, professional identity, marital status, and psychiatric condition – everything modern society considers intrinsic and defining of the individual – as an amusing costume to be played with and discarded. He frees himself through his work from the straitjacket of ‘identity politics’ which placates its prisoners, like a K... See more

Alexander • Poseur

That’s a really exciting prospect to me – the ways that we could all be mad and weird and neurodivergent in a world that didn’t value us according to our exploitability.

Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy

“It’s become accepted that we can exist in isolation from other people and our physical environments,” he continues, “even though both are fundamental to our quality of life as human beings.”

Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people

At the end of April, in a powerful essay by another writer, Ottessa Moshfegh, I read this line about love: “Without it, life is just ‘doing time.’” I don’t think she intended by this only romantic love, or parental love, or familial love or really any kind of love in particular. At least, I read it in the Platonic sense: Love with a capital L, an i

Zadie Smith • Intimations: Six Essays

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Rachel Cusk • Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)

Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.