For Now, Eileen Myles - minor work but still Myles for now. Textbook for writing in the close third person. Christine Smallwood, The Life of the Mind - a study of ambient grief, and an urgent reminder the mind/body problem is a woman’s issue. I read this novel when I thought I was dying from OG covid and felt okay about it being the last book I would read.Ĥ. Made me think about the word circumambulation, the deity the sentence. A young Joel & Ethan Coen should bring this to the screen. Avner Landes, Meiselman: The Lean Years - the story of a man who works at a public library and wants a better parking space. Like when the Reality TV camera pans away and you still hear the drama, only the drama is real.ģ.
Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation - sultry dialogues from the wine cellar in this formally inventive 2020 novel. On the internet: “To be involved in a consensual hallucination of normalcy is much worse than being mad.”Ģ. Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This - as an internet addict and pro-abortion parent this novel was deeply relatable, and left me in a puddle of tears.
