Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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nonfiction, novels, short books, poetry, classic literature, leaving new york city for 2 days, shaving my head again, chemo, resting, feeling sorry for myself, feeling lucky

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books:
1:37 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)
6:38 Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (2016)
12:30 On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf (1930)
16:26 The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2000)
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt (2011)
19:21 The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (2022)
21:25 Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life by Micki McGee (2005)
26:56 Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty (2001)
30:57 Uneasy Listening: Notes on Hearing and Being Heard by Anouchka Grose & Robert Brewer Young (2018)
34:05 Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido (2013)
37:00 Personne n’a besoin de savoir by Olivier Adam (2023)
37:44 short stories & novellas
Le Docteur Heraclius Gloss by Guy de Maupassant (1875)
Mademoiselle Fifi et autres nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant (1880)
The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories by Nikolai Gogol (trans. Ronald Wilks) (1835)
38:37 The Cat and the Devil by James Joyce (1957)
39:56 december plans

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