Motherhood is an attempt at wholeness. I mean by wholeness a self-understanding before challenge—in this case, the challenge of whether or not, given Motherhood is an attempt at wholeness. I mean by wholeness a self-understanding before challenge—in this case, the challenge of whether or not, given this moment in time and history, to make another person.
The story in this book testifies to the complexity and beauty of a given life, no matter its circumstances. Because of this logical and compassionate neutrality, the book helped me consider and sense my lives in a new way. It helped me feel less alone in my worries and observations, less alone in my struggles with these questions: Who am I? What am I here for? What can be created? What can be preserved?
The book explores the pains and possibilities of an artist living through a portion of history in which the past is readily available, and the future a promised series of threats. Possibly more so than any other time in history, future-facing decisions made now seem the most difficult, the most contradictory. Heti shows us, with clear and comfortable prose, how to live amid these decisions....more
I wrote these poems, aphorisms, and essays during 2015 – 2018. They helped me replace simple, harmful beliefs about myself with clarifying, exciting, I wrote these poems, aphorisms, and essays during 2015 – 2018. They helped me replace simple, harmful beliefs about myself with clarifying, exciting, and complex beliefs. They also helped me articulate my values, which then helped me organize and care for people more effectively. If you're feeling doomed, or if you're feeling helpless—politically and privately—then this book might help you. I hope it does....more
I really enjoyed reading Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change by Tao Lin. The book reminded me of Tolstoy's Confession, because both books are aI really enjoyed reading Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change by Tao Lin. The book reminded me of Tolstoy's Confession, because both books are about recovering from depression by trying to live in ways boring people call "radical." Trip is an informative book, written in a calm and curious style, that encourages us to think broadly, seek awe, and heal. I imagine rereading Trip in the future; when I imagine this, I feel warm....more
I started a publishing imprint—Satyr Press—to publish this book. It's gorgeous, surprising, disturbing, and a lot of fun. We aimed to publish the bestI started a publishing imprint—Satyr Press—to publish this book. It's gorgeous, surprising, disturbing, and a lot of fun. We aimed to publish the best dungeon module ever, and I believe that we have....more
I wrote this about the book: Salt Is For Curing is the lush and haunting full-length debut by Sonya Vatomsky. These poems, structured as an elaborate I wrote this about the book: Salt Is For Curing is the lush and haunting full-length debut by Sonya Vatomsky. These poems, structured as an elaborate meal, conjure up a vapor of earthly pains and magical desires; like the most enduring rituals, Vatomsky’s poems both intoxicate and ward. A new blood moon in American poetry, Salt Is For Curing is surprising, disturbing, and spookily illuminating....more
When a manuscript came in from Mark Gluth, I woke up. I had read his first novel, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, and had been dented by it. The boWhen a manuscript came in from Mark Gluth, I woke up. I had read his first novel, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, and had been dented by it. The book left me unable to stomach other books for weeks, convinced that Mark had found a perfect voice—trenchant yet lyrical—to express so concisely fog-shrouded pains such as yearning, old age, artistic creation, and death. A book as powerful as Mark’s first novel was hard to come by.
In the winter of 2013, though, I read the manuscript for No Other. Mark’s second novel—which he had devoutly worked on for over five years—made me cry three times, and it’s a short book. More importantly, it haunted me further for three days and nights. Its language was even more lucid and emotional than Mark’s first book, somehow both transparent and roiling. No Other’s family, their elemental lives, and the mutative face of death and illness that surges through the text left me in a mood that I recognized from my reading of past Sator titles: I felt scorched and desirous, aching to take Mark’s book into my hands to then put it in the hands of everyone I possibly could....more
Loading...
