From the Archive: What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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Join NOW!Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
...moreThe unspoken family sentiment: If everyone worked hard and the bills were paid, that was all that mattered. There was no room for emotions.
...moreI am transfixed with the probability of earthquakes.
...moreWhen she was seven years old, Lottie killed her first rattlesnake. As long as she could remember, her grandfather had instilled in her that The Good Californian killed the rattlesnake, spared those behind him the danger of snakebite, the venom sapped from their future. She thought it was allegory until she came face-to-Western-face with a Mojave rattlesnake in the scrub out by the foothills.
...moreI pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
...moreYou are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.
...moreThere aren’t enough trains in Los Angeles. Not enough for me to sleep.
...moreJoy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
...moreTelevision babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
...moreI hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
...moreIt comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here.
...moreA block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
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...moreChinatown comes to vivid life in Yu’s hands.
...moreMore than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
...moreGabrielle Civil discusses EXPERIMENTS IN JOY.
...moreMy gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
...moreBrit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
...moreWhat my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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...moreThis is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
...moreChelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
...moreC Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel, HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD.
...moreMusic was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
...moreIt’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
...moreIt took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
...moreI see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
...moreCha constructs a Los Angeles sharply different from most representations of the city.
...moreNick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
...moreFor many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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