Pond – Claire-Louise Bennett

“I only wish you could just spend five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.” Continue reading
Hmm. @NortonLifelock says a site I have…
Feeling equal parts nervous and excited…
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter — Mario Vargas Llosa

La Habanera dances in the streetsAnd like every nightPedro Comacho sells peanutsOutside the Tropicana Club Continue reading
Wine labels should include a Best After…
don’t bite the hair of the dog that…
I Can’t Remember the Dream — They Might Be Giants

TMBG are still good at writing about everyday things that nobody else writes about. I have often woken up with a strong feeling — disquiet, or happiness, or yearning — from a dream that I can’t recall. And this song … Continue reading
No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood

The first half of the book is dizzying — stupid — hilarious — it’s a series of seemingly random impressions, vignettes, observations and ideas of a narrator who is an Internet celebrity and is steeped in Internet culture. Continue reading
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X + Y — Eugenia Cheng

It seems to me that the world is set up in such a way as to give men an unfair advantage. (Lucky me.) And not just because they are men — more because the world is set up so that … Continue reading