Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
winter reading vlog in New York: reading short stories and essays, music, films, snow. Bonus content: comparing Marmite and Vegemite
books/stories/essays:
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso (2016)
Going to the Territory by Ralph Ellison (1988)
— “The Little Man at Chehaw Station”
— “Going to the Territory”
Reminiscences of a Student’s Life: A Memoir by Jane Ellen Harrison (1925)
Seeing Further by Esther Kinsky (2024)
Places I've Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown (2020)
— “Muscle Memory”
Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot (1989)
“Vivre l’orange” (“To Live the Orange”) by Hélène Cixous (1979)
Family Ties by Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson) (1960)
Creature by Amina Cain (2013)
— “A Threadless Way”
— “Attached to a Self”
The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova (2017)
— “Waxy”
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (2015)
— “A Manual for Cleaning Women”
— “Angel’s Laundromat”
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser (trans. Susan Bernofsky)
“Crossing a Bridge” by Mavis Gallant (1993)
Animal by Dorothea Lasky (2019)
— “Poetry, Ghosts and the Shared Imagination”
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948)
socials:
insta: @ sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
storygraph: @ sdelphis
winter reading vlog in New York: reading short stories and essays, music, films, snow. Bonus content: comparing Marmite and Vegemite
books/stories/essays:
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso (2016)
Going to the Territory by Ralph Ellison (1988)
— “The Little Man at Chehaw Station”
— “Going to the Territory”
Reminiscences of a Student’s Life: A Memoir by Jane Ellen Harrison (1925)
Seeing Further by Esther Kinsky (2024)
Places I've Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown (2020)
— “Muscle Memory”
Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot (1989)
“Vivre l’orange” (“To Live the Orange”) by Hélène Cixous (1979)
Family Ties by Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson) (1960)
Creature by Amina Cain (2013)
— “A Threadless Way”
— “Attached to a Self”
The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova (2017)
— “Waxy”
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (2015)
— “A Manual for Cleaning Women”
— “Angel’s Laundromat”
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser (trans. Susan Bernofsky)
“Crossing a Bridge” by Mavis Gallant (1993)
Animal by Dorothea Lasky (2019)
— “Poetry, Ghosts and the Shared Imagination”
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948)
socials:
insta: @ sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
storygraph: @ sdelphis
