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"How can I say this so we can stay in this car together, and yet - explore the things that I want to explore with you?"
Claudia Rankine
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Apr 12, 2019
Book Club February Pick: Insomnia, by Marina Benjamin
Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of...
Feb 5, 2019
A Year in Books: 2018
She used to disappear as a child but I never worried about her. I knew she was just holed up somewhere, with her nose in another book. ...
Jan 29, 2019
Book Club January Pick: The White Book, by Han Kang
On cold mornings, that first white cloud of escaping breath is proof that we are living. Proof of our bodies' warmth. Cold air rushes...
Dec 14, 2018
Book Club November Pick: Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So...
Nov 9, 2018
Book Club October Pick: An Unrestored Woman, by Shobha Rao
I believe that while the recovery of a person is possible, the restoration of a human being to her original state is not. An Unrestored...
Oct 19, 2018
Book Club September Pick: Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer;...
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