This arbitrary pairing being a lot more synchronous than anticipated… 🌀🐚🌊🫏

Cover of the year

I'd live inside myself doing the same things I do now in spite of the fact of being a prisoner in the dark because inside people is darknes

Blind Owl is perfect. Captures a state of nightmare as if it were written by one. In league with Dazai, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Ligotti, Molinard, Evenson, Dávila, NDiaye, Donoso.

Trying to prioritize movie watching more lately. This month has gutted me.

Shoutout the library

I’ve moved on from Marie NDiaye’s early novels of vague identities and emotions to a later stage where the incessant need to pin down and examine reality only serves to better emphasize its illusory nature. One of my most treasured writers working today.

Inspired by how Jordan Stump describes the process of translating Marie NDiaye here: youtu.be/ilpy2CCfnmI?si…

If one were to be finalizing a novel/short story collection hybrid manuscript to submit around summer’s end…. Where would one submit?

I always feel sick writing on an empty stomach.

Another banger from Charco Press. Also, the inclusion of Gil’s social media posts alongside the primary text is such an effective marriage of the contemporary writer’s two primary outlets. Could easily be done poorly, but here it elevates the text and brings it into the world.

Current bedside slow reads to start/end the day with.

Been anticipating Lili is Crying all year. Hoping to have more Hélène Bessette brought to us by Kate Briggs’ expert pen. This is to be read in a summer heat.

These two share a certain fluidity that is helping me work through some polyvocal stuff I’m doing in my own book

Spent the morning listening to two of my favorite living writers on two of my favorite podcasts 💯

A new edition of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage will be available to order on August 1st 👀 can’t wait to get my hands on these. asterismbooks.com/product/pilgri…

Been slowly reading through the Black Star Books and Head of Zeus reprint of the Heinemann African Writers series, my latest being Kole Omotoso’s The Edifice. A biting Nigerian novel of assimilation and hypocrisy. For those who appreciate Dambudzo Marechera and Ama Ata Aidoo.

Are there any good works of literature that prominently depict bipolar disorder? Suggestions would be appreciated.