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deeply sad but also deeply, deeply funny
Jan 26, 2024
"One of the most common and saddest spectacles is that of a person of really fine sensibility and acute psychological perception trying to write fiction by these qualities alone. This type of writer will put down one intensely emotional or keenly perceptive sentence after the other, and the result will be complete dullness. The facts is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."
Jan 13, 2024
this book is kinda hilarious. it’s a bunch of short stories/memoirs from comedy writer and playwright lauren weedman.
my experience reading this reminded me of watching the office actually. it was almost unbearable to read these hyper cringe accounts but by the mid point of the book it all clicked and it became both endearing and hilarious. by the end of the book, i felt like i had a new friend :)
also, i found it on my mom’s bookshelf with the second hand bookstore receipt in it from 2009. she had highlighted a handful of lines about having a boring sex life. hope things have gotten better for her since, but i dare not ask
Mar 21, 2025
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it's incredible that society built boredom and not the other way around. It also occurs to me that being bored and stuck at home may produce some high-quality feminist literature. so I just need to wait.
Dec 25, 2023
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It's surprising to me now how right 18 year old me is, but it wouldn't be at all surprising to her, this shit fucks
Jan 12, 2024
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her poem about victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and her poem "on platforms and plate-glass waiting rooms."
Dec 26, 2023