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Your godparents, also city people, live a mile down the road. She has red hair and cat’s-eye glasses; he is bald and does one voice to impersonate all four Beatles.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
ALAN LOMAX, Notes to Blues in the Mississippi Night, Rykodisc 90155 [1990] Little Sally Walker, sitting in a flying saucer Arkestra chant at Slug’s, c. 1967
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
In my head, the critics and the crowd were one and the same.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
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I was lost in my fantasy, ignoring Dave Brubeck and coming up for air only when my father elbowed my ribs to ask, “Are you listening to this? These cats are burning the paint right off the walls!”
David Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day
Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Fantasies are often set in ordinary life, but the material of fantasy is a more permanent, universal reality than the social customs realism deals with.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
She wants to bathe in asses’ milk, or the blood of a basilisk, or something else extravagant. A deep cleanse. Sleeping with Arthur again is awaking some very old impulses. It would have to be almond milk, nowadays. But even almonds are bad for the planet. She read that in the New Yorker.