How We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
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Join NOW!The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
...morejamie hood discusses her debut book, HOW TO BE A GOOD GIRL.
...moreMelissa Faliveno discusses her debut essay collection, TOMBOYLAND.
...moreAuthor María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver discuss INCLUDE ME OUT.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his new book, CLEANNESS.
...moreTo read Amina Cain is to enter tide pools of the mind.
...moreSeth Rogoff discusses his novels FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE and THIN RISING VAPORS.
...moreAfter the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.
...moreHere are some reading suggestions for those of you stuck on an island with no Tyga or blink-182 to distract you.
...moreChew-Bose approaches the word essay less as a noun and more as a verb.
...morePoet Suzanne Buffam discusses her latest work, A Pillow Book, sleep remedies that don’t work, and the worries that occupy her mind and keep her from sleep.
...moreLynn Steger Strong discusses her debut novel Hold Still, the influence of Virginia Woolf, unconditional love, and exit strategies.
...moreMark Leyner on his new book Gone with the Mind, pressuring the novel form, being a purist Dionysian, and artisanal pap smears.
...moreLauren Groff talks about her new novel, Fates and Furies, the life of creative people and those who love them, and why she’s grateful to anyone who reads books.
...morePeter Orner writes over at Salon about the beautiful summer of being 22, out on a lake and drinking some beers. He writes of languidly gliding along in a boat with some friends and gripping a copy of To The Lighthouse. Virginia taught him an important lesson that summer: the value of failure.
...moreHelen Dunmore wrote the beautiful new introduction to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published online by Granta, in conjunction with their latest, feminism-themed issue, The F-Word. The beginning of summer and the new intro are both reasons to revisit this classic. “In To the Lighthouse Woolf has returned again and again to the destructive power […]
...moreWhen I started reading as a child, it was an immoderate, late-night indulgence of sweaty palmed, pupil-dilating gluttony. Books were a drug, and civilized society was the pusher. And I got really really high.
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