Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Trying to stave off winter depression & sluggishness (spoiler: I was not very successful)

books & stories:
The Alienist by Machado de Assis (trans. Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson) (1882)
“Living” by Grace Paley (1974)
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
— “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street" (1963)
— “Irina” (1976)
— “The Latehomecomer” (1974)
— “In Transit” (1965)
— “The Moslem Wife” (1976)
“American Grief in Four Stages” by Sadie Hoagland (2020)
“The Structure of the Soap Bubble” by Lygia Fagundes Telles (trans. David George) (1969)
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag (1978)
Love’s Work by Gillian Rose (1995)
The Undying by Anne Boyer (2019)
Le Normal et le pathologique (The Normal and the Pathological) by Georges Canguilhem (1974)
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (1980)

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