one of my forever favs have read nothing like it / punky techno feminist dystopian
“kitchen-sink realism, told from the perspective of the one stuck doing the dishes.”
explores relationships / gender / desire / detachment / sucker punch pop song / wildly clever n devastatingly prophetic
Alien Daughters Walk Into The Sun - Jackie Wang
“An almanac of extreme girlhood”
abolition/underground/biking across countries/accidentally falling into success
Not so much a collection of short stories but diary entries, tumblr posts, zine archives, “essays“, poems
Contents titles are: The Hard-Femme years / The Punk House Years/The Desert Years/The Getting-My-Shit-Together-Years/
I also remember enjoying Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson!
Apr 20, 2024
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The Sluts - Dennis Cooper
not a novella but I read it in one night so maybe that counts. i have never forgotten it and i will always recommend it.
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
whimsical/surreal/funny/heartbreaking short stories by an incredible artist.
Confabulations - John Berger
a collection of discursive essays and observations from an incredible mind. Also rec Ways of Seeing.
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Jan 1, 2025
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Miranda July is so alive and it shows in her writing. The metal bowl is an all time fave, as is her first novel the first bad man.
Mary Gaitskill is a beast. Scary.
Alice Munro—she has about a million collections of short stories, all amazing, methodical, domestic. The Lives of Girls and Women is a good place to start
Toddler Hunting by Taeko Kono is kinky like an empty street in the burbs.
May 22, 2024
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One of my fave genres ♥️
The factory, hiroko oyamada
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Assembly, Natasha brown
Kitchen, banana yoshimoto (rec’d elsewhere)
Written on the body, Jeanette winterson (!!)
When we cease to understand the world, Benjamin labatut
20 fragments of a ravenous youth, xialou guo
The faces, Tove ditlevsen (recd elsewhere)
How i live now, Meg rosoff
slaughterhouse five, Kurt Vonnegut
Jan 4, 2025
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- my dad on tattoos
Apr 17, 2024
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Look ma no hands
Sep 25, 2024