What to Read When You Can’t Catch a Break
What reliably got me out of that slump was writing more and reading literature that lifted me out of my immediate crisis (I can’t go on!) and into the world (and yet we must!).
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Jemimah Wei
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Jemimah Wei is the author of THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER, a highly anticipated novel as seen on VOGUE, Tatler, TIME, Harper’s Bazaar, Dateline, Electric Lit, Debutiful, Laufey’s Book Club, SF Chronicle, Goodreads’ Most Anticipated, and more. She is a 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honouree, a 2022-4 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a 2020 Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University, and a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and been published in Narrative, Guernica, and Joyland, amongst others.