Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What I read for comfort or distraction during a busy and stressful week

Books I mention:
Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (2014)
Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti (trans. Elizabeth Harris) (2022)
Chanson Douce (Lullaby) by Leïla Slimani (2016)
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington (2017)

Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon (2020)
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century edited by Jenny Minton Quigley (2021)

Paris Review interview with Claudia Durastanti: theparisreview.org/blog/2022/01/28/a-formal-feeling-a-conversation-with-claudia-durastanti

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