Tag Archives: Nonfiction

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Before I arrived to this city, I could feel the depression in my fingertips. It made my fingers tingle. Sadness is the most alive emotion. It gets into your nerves. Its pulses feel like … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week This year I turned my back to the world. I let language face / the front. The parting felt like a death. The first person ran / away like a horse. — Victoria Chang … Continue reading →

Mules? … Donkeys? … Jackasses? … Huh?! What I’m Reading: … The best thing about emptiness is if you close youreyes in a field, you’ll open your eyes in a field. — Victoria Chang / “With My Back to the … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week “I don’t believe in the therapeutic effects of writing … I really think that the only healing possible will be through justice … “ — Cristina Rivera Garza, to Lillian Perlmutter / “‘The only … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: We are all bodies of change. — Laura Killingbeck / “A Woman Who Left Society to Live with Bears Weighs in on ‘Man or Bear’” / Bikepacking.com

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week |  |  The  summers   become  hotter  &   hotter.  |  |  Unbearable  &  luminous,  the  refrain  of  the  song  of  extinction—  —Dante Di Stefano / “Green Burial Unsonnet” “But the scale of this year’s heat — amplified … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Travelling by bicycle is a life of simple things taken seriously: hunger, thirst, friendship, the weather, the stutter of the world beneath you. — Kate Harris / Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week There are mornings I wakeand wonder, why? Later, wanderingthe walkways, in searchof something to fill the holein me . . . — Krista Franklin / “Everyday around the world a woman is pulled into … Continue reading →