#litblr

[dearlyjess]

writing and writing and writing

[inspiredbyabook]

blood over bright haven by m.l. wang

because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them—especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. good people will turn monstrous when it’s down to their survival or someone else’s.

[prophetic-memory]

Mary Oliver, "At the River Clarion"

[victusinveritas]

And adding this in. Credit to @homo-ousios for sending this one along, If you've got more Moby Dickery and Melvillian memes, add them to this post.

[grieflit]

"Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or do we excuse its fragility and mourn its loss?"

Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace

[odetopluto]

“untitled one liner” by hayden p 2023

[isaiahpadams]

[wetcherryliquor]

[papenathys]

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[somerabbitholes]

some essays to fill your time

Just a bunch of things I've read recently.

The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy by Tripurdaman Singh

Why is Everything So Ugly?

Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin

“You are Next”: Unmarried Urban Women in India and the “Marriage Talk” by Shilpa Phadke

Crossing Days by Thomas Dai

Inside the Indian Manosphere by Lhendup Bhatia

Optimism and Desperation by Camilla Grudova

Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College by James Walsh

Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen

When My Authentic is Your Exotic by Soniah Kamal

The discontent of Russia by Joy Neumeyer

On anti-political projects by Kat Rosenfield

'Correcting' historical wrongs is a slippery slope by Manu Pillai

[dearlyjess]

scribbling away

[wedarkacademia]

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

— Mahmoud Darwish

[prophetic-memory]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[daweyt]

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.