Other
16056 posts
Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
What to Read When You Want to be Stirred
I like books that mean something in and outside of their own narratives, impacting my worldview. The stirring can be felt in beautiful writing, or powerful concepts, deep analysis, or emotion that resonates off the page.
What to Read When You Want to Get Lost
I wanted my novel, Lesser Ruins, to feel at ease getting lost, to relish in its obsessions and procrastinations, from long descriptions of electronic music to digressions about coffee to the strange, suffocating world of academia.
What to Read When You Need The Help of Mystical Forces to Combat Human Failure
It takes a whole library to make a book...
What to Read When You Want to be Changed by a Work of Art
Some of the work is simply slowing down visitors and sustaining their attention long enough for the pieces to click together, or for their perspective to shift, or for a light bulb to—literally—go off.
What to Read When You Want to Leave
No one can do the hard work of leaving for you, but you can arm yourself with the stories of others—the closest I’ve come to finding a blueprint.
What to Read When You Want to F*ck with Genre
Sometimes, the phrase “formally inventive” ends up being used as a polite synonym for “highbrow, but boring” (or “man, I couldn’t really follow the narrative of this book at all”).