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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa54b2518-904d-4911-8bdc-0b203dd26d00_1000x712.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi my reading friends :)</p><p>shortly i’ll be moving over some of the content from this newsletter to my main newsletter, <strong><a href="https://dessin.substack.com">dessin</a></strong>. i’d like to keep everything organized under one newsletter, and i have a feeling this will give me more freedom in writing what i want to write about. you can check out dessin below, which is mainly essays, sketchbook process, and drawings:</p><div class="embedded-publication-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":435916,"name":"dessin","logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0346b337-bb91-4c60-8d54-49b938e3b8a4_1000x1000.png","base_url":"https://dessin.substack.com","hero_text":"sketchbook diary for art enjoyers who, like me, are confused about art","author_name":"jess","show_subscribe":true,"logo_bg_color":"#F8F5F1","language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPublicationToDOMWithSubscribe"><div class="embedded-publication show-subscribe"><a class="embedded-publication-link-part" native="true" href="https://dessin.substack.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=publication_embed&utm_medium=web"><img class="embedded-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0346b337-bb91-4c60-8d54-49b938e3b8a4_1000x1000.png" width="56" height="56" style="background-color: #F8F5F1"><span class="embedded-publication-name">dessin</span><div class="embedded-publication-hero-text">sketchbook diary for art enjoyers who, like me, are confused about art</div><div class="embedded-publication-author-name">By jess</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://dessin.substack.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div><p>as for your reading experience — not much will change! you’ll still continue to receive updates on what i’m reading. if you prefer, you can opt in to receive only letters about that from the <strong><a href="https://dessin.substack.com/s/reading">reading</a></strong> section in my newsletter.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa54b2518-904d-4911-8bdc-0b203dd26d00_1000x712.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa54b2518-904d-4911-8bdc-0b203dd26d00_1000x712.png 424w, 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you. </p><p>jess 💗</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[turning the orbit around etc.]]></title><description><![CDATA[fall 2023 / january 2024]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/turning-the-orbit-around-etc</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/turning-the-orbit-around-etc</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 14:33:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0657a7d-b979-4e62-b876-bd246d72ad7a_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F385104bf-b94d-498d-97ed-158f7f08664d_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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Winter gets cold but not so cold. Where I live a main topic of conversation tends toward how warm this winter has been, but how next week will be much colder, and and how the warmth, nice as it is, is a harbinger of some bigger, scarier thing, usually expressed as, it’s nice out and we’re fucked.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04c5db24-18ac-4232-a286-c0afde3afd91_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I spent a couple weeks listening to the audiobook of Chanel Miller’s <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780735223721">Know My Name</a></strong>, which I think was best listened to, because it was as if she was sitting next to me on the couch and talking. I think I connected with it in ways I was expecting, and didn’t connect with it in ways I was not expecting. Next, a quick jaunt with Annie Ernaux’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781644213209">The Young Man</a>. Then, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781555978259">Oculus</a> by Sally Wen Mao, the majority of which I read at a Thai restaurant waiting for two friends to arrive — both came late, but that was okay, because it gave me more time to read. Afterwards, we took digital camera pictures against the fence tucked around the restaurant. The light coming from the evening and the buildings bleached everything gold. </p><p>Then, a difficult period for reading, which means comics: <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781638585824">Yokai Cats</a></strong> by PANDANIA, which was given to me last year for my birthday by my friend Y, who shares the same birthday as me, and which I read exclusively in bed. Winter break - J drives me to the station and I squeeze onto the train home with 3 minutes to spare and more sweaty than I have ever been in my life: <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781982190958">Briefly, A Delicious Life</a></strong>, which is my first novel in a while, and I even enjoy it, so I milk it as a conversation starter with everyone in my book club for two weeks. Then, <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781648275968">A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic</a></strong> by Mariko Kikuchi, <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781638583998">X-Gender</a></strong> (Volumes 1 and 2) by Asuka Miyazaki. Followed by some volumes of <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781593070205">Berserk</a></strong> by Kentaro Miura, described as foundational reading by J, the rest of which I am still slowly working through and enjoying a lot. The art is maybe some of the most consistently involved art I have seen in comics. Then, <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781974709939">Chainsaw Man</a></strong> by Tatsuki Fujimoto, which I had read once, but this time tried to read in French, and that was okay. <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781551527659">Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression</a></strong> by Teresa Wong, which I liked alright, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780358345541">In</a> by Will McPhail, which I really liked, and which got me started on reading comics on Libby, which feels so convenient it seems illegal. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg" width="480" height="600" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":480,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"From In by Will McPhail","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="From In by Will McPhail" title="From In by Will McPhail" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecd1e91f-f172-48a6-b46b-245994541978_480x600.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-caption">from In by Will McPhail. he has a sort of bubbly, chewy art style where it still feels like you can see everyone’s bones that i enjoy</figcaption></figure></div><p>On multiple subway rides, <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781644450949">Civil Service</a></strong> by Claire Schwartz, which I enjoyed but occasionally had trouble with. Some poems I really liked, including <strong><a href="https://granta.com/lecture-on-loneliness/">Lecture on Loneliness</a></strong>. Shortly after, my roommate C, whose usual fare is longform nonfiction, read it, found it interesting, and then not. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png" width="1044" height="635" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":635,"width":1044,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":82147,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bcc729-217a-4c3b-b9ee-fb42bfa159de_1044x635.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">a part of claire schwartz’s <a href="https://granta.com/lecture-on-loneliness/">lecture on loneliness</a>, which is quite long, so you should <a href="https://granta.com/lecture-on-loneliness/">go read it</a> !!!</figcaption></figure></div><p>Was foggy today — saw a ton of birds on power lines while biking through an intersection. Felt like something to note.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thanks so much for reading, as always 💖 what have you been reading these days, and how have you been feeling about it?</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[this beautiful approachable book]]></title><description><![CDATA[summer to fall 2023 & & &]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/this-beautiful-approachable-book</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/this-beautiful-approachable-book</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 20:55:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/845ffe7b-feb4-4d2a-870c-f68ac0c02a47_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7c1f580-4141-4ebe-93ca-018d9108f1bf_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Hey — and summer goes by! And only with three mosquito bites. Before the heat broke, there was a 50+ day record streak of heat, which I think, in part, is making the transition to fall feel less real, but also more real, because this is a real marker of the passage of time, that big clock that reads <a href="https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/">90 seconds to midnight</a>. Earlier last week my roommate C and I went to a nearby park to read, and on our bikes we crested down a hill, where there were a lot of different dogs rolling and leaping. A brigade of bikers in high-vis vests and colourful shorts pedaled by, and before we went up an incline, C said, “Ready?” and then we went up. In my usual fashion I am writing this an hour before I need to be across town. The bike ride there will be uphill so I am bracing myself.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1151aa74-bd57-4106-a9ee-98178d8656a7_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For a one-time book club with D & V & S, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781609456702">Breasts and Eggs</a> by Mieko Kawakami, which I didn’t connect with very much, but which we had some very interesting conversations around, which reminded me of my other friend J, who is a wonderful book club facilitator and how she asked very curious and gentle questions. Then, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781555978433">A Lucky Man</a> by Jamel Brinkley, which was masculine and serious and very good. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781632430526">Ghost of</a> by Diana Khoi Nguyen, recommended to me by my friend K, who excels at identifying subway car manufacturers. <strong>Come Late to the Love of Birds</strong> by Sandra Kasturi, which I didn’t like but got on a beautiful day at a new library branch. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781594484650">Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It</a>, which I picked up because <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{"name":"Brandon","id":13679,"type":"user","url":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cc0c19b9-4e89-49d0-b3af-48c8f70afdf4_300x449.png","uuid":"70ed8f15-4a25-4222-bae3-69a893da647f"}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> mentioned it in<span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{"name":"sweater weather","id":14343,"type":"pub","url":"https://open.substack.com/pub/blgtylr","photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6531a44a-f90c-410f-af81-841ce4ece481_300x300.png","uuid":"9fb572f2-c63b-46bb-8d92-1f9f5cbceb65"}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, and which I loved and spoke about to everyone who would listen to me about it. Maile Meloy is so precise. She uses the perfect words. The first story is about a guy on a horse:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c79d23-d059-4c37-a210-392a1f4de192_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>She paused before nodding, and he took this for encouragement. He caught up her hand again and kissed it, because he had wanted to do that, and it was soft and cold. Then he leaned over and kissed her cheek, because he had wanted to do that, too. She didn’t move, not an inch, and he was about to kiss her for real when she seemed to snap out of a trance, and stepped away from him. She took her hand back. “I have to go,” she said, and she went around to the driver’s side of the Datsun. He held the horse while she drove out of the parking lot, and he kicked at the snow. The horse sidestepped away. He felt like jumping up and down, in excitement and anxiety and anguish. He had run her off. He shouldn’t have kissed her. He should have kissed her more. He should have let her say what she wanted to say. He mounted up and rode home.</p><p><strong>Maile Meloy</strong>, Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It</p></blockquote><p>Then a series of poetry, which I have started to read and write more of, starting with <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781955904216">Almanac of Useless Talents</a>, by Michael Chang, who I am also obsessed with. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781639550494">The Hurting Kind</a> by Ada Limon, who read a few poems a few months ago when I went to see her with my friend A, followed by the <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781487011802">2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology Shortlist</a>, which we got from the event. She is so good at reading; her voice really felt like the water and the trees and the wind. And she sang a little, which was lovely.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> Spark Joy by Marie Kondo, which was long but surprisingly practical. Then, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780593332337">The Late Americans</a> by Brandon Taylor, which I was just, so <em>into</em> the whole time I was reading it, and which made me feel that specific hopeful gummy feeling of being alive when you’re in the middle of a novel that pulls from you the best & worst parts of what you have been feeling and lays them out for you, gorgeously. </p><p>Then a frantic set from the library, almost all of which were dangerously approaching the overdue deadline: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780147530882">The Pocket Butler’s Guide to Good Housekeeping</a> by Charles MacPherson; <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780981484600">Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers</a> by Leonard Koren; <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781982106638">The Best American Poetry 2021</a> edited by David Lehman, guest edited by Tracy K. Smith, to which I kept saying, “oh my god,” because some of the poems in there were really making my world bigger. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780810146211">Synthetic Jungle by Michael Chang</a>, which I really liked, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781950774692">Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen</a>, which I mega really liked.</p><p>Went home for the long weekend. Came back. Started reading again. Can never stop for that long anymore.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thanks so much for reading, as always 💖</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>this is actually late - i had written this a few weeks ago and then did not finish it because i had to bike across town. now I am finishing writing this, again, an hour before I need to be across town. HA!!!</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>she has a beautiful singing voice; everyone in the room was hushed, but laughed when she sang, i think bc they were so delighted by it</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[down out of the hills]]></title><description><![CDATA[a month passes. a month passes]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/down-out-of-the-hills</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/down-out-of-the-hills</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:01:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/60b8065c-2350-45f2-8462-41fd9857498b_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec750c8a-59e3-4213-9f77-8daaae9b2d02_3840x2160.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec750c8a-59e3-4213-9f77-8daaae9b2d02_3840x2160.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Hey — I’m having the sort of month (upon writing this, months, plural) where everything seems to be new and memorable. This sudden summer heat in early April, the ice storms, the resigned, clean beep of the power coming back on, new seasons of TV I can’t keep up with, the slant of light coming in every single window, a clear bolt of certainty, like, <em>I will be committing this to memory and then to my life</em> and then promptly forgetting. Other things I’ve forgotten — to claim all my expenses on my tax return, how to park the car neatly, even with generous space, how to live without a calendar, the itch and relief poetry shakes awake in me when I read it, and to update this newsletter.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5356ee4f-f063-4058-8b60-1578c71e708c_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>To start with, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780393318869">What the Living Do</a> by Marie Howe, a collection that cuts a line clean through you and then through you again. Its titular poem, <a href="https://poets.org/poem/what-living-do">What the Living Do</a>, an all-time favourite, so alive, but never overwritten. It’s bare and fleshy in a way that I love.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> So is the rest of the collection.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08c03415-d0f7-471c-9c89-b84311f17a57_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>For weeks now, driving, or dropping a bag of groceries in the street, the bag breaking,
I’ve been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday, hurrying along those
wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my coffee down my wrist and sleeve,
I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush: This is it.
Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the cold. What you called that yearning.</p></blockquote><p>Then <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781250235572">Himawari House</a> by Harmony Becker, which I thought was sweet but didn’t really enjoy. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781770461666">Earthling</a> by Aisha Franz, which was deliciously drawn; I wanted to eat the pages. Then I had to return my books to the library, so it was back to the e-reader: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781982151997">Easy Beauty</a> by Chloé Cooper Jones, which I filled up with highlights, and which I still think about now; <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780399590528">Educated</a> by Tara Westover, which I obsessively read over a few days but think about much less often; for book club, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781600964336">The Death of Ivan Ilych</a>, which was dry and funny but also creepy and wet. For some reason the good-natured, farmboy-adjacent character who holds up Ivan’s legs when he is ill sticks with me and probably will stick with me forever.</p><p>Work rages on; I read Brandon Taylor’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780525538929">Filthy Animals</a> and was shaken up by some of his lines. He is one of those writers where I whisper to myself, god I wish I wrote like you. Same with the next book, Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on, which I chew on for a while, and still that same burning feeling and desire to write that goes on, aflame. </p><p>A month passes. I read Heather Havrilesky’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780062984463">Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage</a>, which was saucy, which felt like the Ask Polly columns but also made me miss the Ask Polly columns. Then Daniel Sloss’ <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780525658146">Everyone You Hate is Going to Die</a>, which made me laugh but made me wish it were over in that it was not very nice, but then <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780525565222">Very Nice</a> by Marcy Dermansky, which was JUICY IN ALL WAYS !!! WHAT A SUMMER READ!!! To me it feels like her writing just comes right out of her head and lands perfectly on the page, though I know that can’t be true. This, followed by <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780679756453">Portnoy’s Complaint</a> by Philip Roth, which was dirty and funny and made me laugh out loud on the plane home from my first ever vacation. My friend J told me that it came recommended from his brother, and I told him it was banned and he said Shut Up. They Ban Books? </p><p>A month passes. I walked into a new library branch with lions parked at the archway and left with a pair of free socks and new poetry books: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780889822627">Living Under Plastic</a> by Evelyn Lau, which I thought had some really gorgeous lines but also made me think about things I dislike in my own writing. After, Gary Barwin’s Moon Baboon Canoe, which was interesting and playful. </p><p>Been a while. I’m getting back into poetry and it’s a good feeling.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thank you, as always, for reading 💗</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>please read that poem i am begging you please </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[people feeling far away]]></title><description><![CDATA[self-help, jazzy poetry, not jazzy poetry, not great gatsby]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/people-feeling-far-away</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/people-feeling-far-away</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:33:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2c4935d6-b87c-4e05-b2d5-cf3df2ff15db_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the first things I did this year was finish the frozen baked goods I had in my fridge, and then for my own sanity, promised myself I would never buy baked goods in insane quantities again, and then, again, for my own sanity, crawled to the grocery on a wet Saturday for a surprise pie and turnover disaster. The rhubarb-strawberry hybrid pies from the Irresistibles must really not be all that irresistible because I pick it up every time I get my to-go bag of near expired’s.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":865404,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F419947d5-c637-453b-863f-0a9d5d768188_3840x2160.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I started the year with <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780525511663">Quarterlife</a> by Satya Doyle Byock, which I was drawn to because it was the beginning of the year and 23 was hurtling towards me. I felt it was exactly what it said on the cover but was disappointed, still. I think we expect self help books to fix us immediately. It’s what makes them marketable. Still, I feel like a lot of twenty somethings will feel seen by this book.</p><p>This, then <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780143120353">Alien vs. Predator</a> by Michael Robbins, which I was bothered by but then interested in but then bothered by, again. I was trying to capture the feeling of wonder I felt when I first read his poem, <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6808/walkman-michael-robbins">Walkman</a>, but I think he was trying to do something different in Alien that make them hard to compare. Then, for the first book club read of 2023, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781250849250">The Last Summer in the City</a> by Gianfranco Calligarich, which read like a beachside Great Gatsby, with the same blue feeling running through the whole thing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141caae1-5a16-4031-8e2d-90c2d3b21b83_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Nobody to whom a thing like that happens can return home exactly as he was before. In spite of his proud silence, it always seemed as if he was trying to make us forget something, perhaps the fact he’d come home a shattered man and had made us watch his big body writhing as the electric shocks shuddered through it. Anyway, that’s how he was, and when I was a boy I could never forgive him for his unheroic profession, his love of order, his excessive respect for inanimate things, not understanding what terrible destruction he must have witnessed to then set about repairing an old kitchen chair with infinite patience on the very day he came back from the war. <br><strong>Gianfranco Calligarich</strong>, Last Summer in the City</p></blockquote><p>On the subway I finished Franz Wright’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780375710810">God’s Silence</a>, which had some gorgeous poems. Like Jane Hirshfield<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>, he has a way of using these big, ambitious, regal words that doesn’t annoy me. A part of On the Bus, one of the first poems in the collection:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206b4a8f-b311-4de8-a920-4598723d95a6_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>It's one thing when you're twenty-one,<br>and I was way past twenty-one.<br>With unshaven face half concealed in the collar<br>of some deceased porcine philanthropist's<br>black cashmere rag of a coat,<br>I knew that I looked like a suicide<br>returning an overdue book to the library.<br>Almost everyone else did as well,<br>but I found no particular solace in this;<br>at best, the fact awakened some diverting speculations<br>on the comparative benefits<br>of waiting in front of a ditch to be shot<br>alone or in company<br>of others, and then whether one would prefer<br>these last hypothetical others<br>to be friends, family, enemies, total<br>or relative strangers. Would you hold hands?<br>Or would you rather like a good <em>Homo sapiens</em><br>monster employ them<br>to cover your genitals?</p></blockquote><p>It was a weird, sad month. It was good to read.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thank you, as always, for reading 💗</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>girl who has read one jane hirshfield book: getting a lot of jane hirshfield vibes from this</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[nevermind im back on my comics bullshit]]></title><description><![CDATA[looking at pictures, fall to winter]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/nevermind-im-back-on-my-comics-bullshit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/nevermind-im-back-on-my-comics-bullshit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:42:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a02bfd82-b6e0-4684-b7e2-f142e701ba3f_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Living deep in the thicket of fall meant countless trips to the library; I read a battered copy of <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781632362285">Princess Jellyfish</a> by Akiko Higashimura, which I would have loved as a 12 year old, and which made me think of my 12 year old self more gently. Weird little girls rule my world. After, another book that didn’t do much for me, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781984854278">Gmorning, Gnight</a>, by Lin-Manuel Miranda (illustrated by Jonny Sun). Then, Max Porter’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781555977412">Grief is the Thing with Feathers</a>, which is wretched and wild and gorgeous and made me sit up in bed as if I could get the words inside of me better. Still think about it now.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd670136-632e-4e43-be21-7117520d0865_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>And I stood and breathed their air and considered – as always – things like fragility, danger, luck, imperfection, chance, being kind, being funny, being honest, eyes, hair, bones, the impossible hectic silent epidermis rejuvenating itself, never nervous, always kissable, even when scabbed, even so salty I made it, and I felt so many nights utterly, totally yanked apart by how much I loved these children, and I asked them, loudly: Do you want to MOVE ON? <br>— <strong>Max Porter</strong>, Grief is the Thing with Feathers</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2438f3-c4f3-4217-ac67-62389086e204_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Then began my comics binge, which is what I do when I get into reading slumps. First it was <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781770463844">The Swamp</a> by Yoshiharu Tsuge (trans. Ryan Holmberg), which was creepy and wet, then <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781534315853">SFSX</a> by Tina Horn (illustrated by Michael Dowling, Alejandra Gutierrez, Jen Hickman, Tula Lotay), which was just wet but then also a little dry, then volume 2 of <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781897299197">Moomin</a> by Tove Jansson which was big and beautiful like the moon. </p><p>Then: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781770463868">Umma’s Table</a> by Yeon-Sik Hong (trans. Janet Hong), which had me crying at the kitchen table at 8pm on a Monday, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781770464001">Moms</a> by Yeong-shin Ma (also trans. Janet Hong) which was a riot, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781770463981">The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud</a> by Kuniko Tsurita (trans. Ryan Holmberg) which bothered me but only a little.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png 848w, 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data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":531,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"a screenshot of umma's table by yeon-sik hong, an illustration of the main character as a child happily eating what his mother made for him. the caption says, mother...umma...","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="a screenshot of umma's table by yeon-sik hong, an illustration of the main character as a child happily eating what his mother made for him. the caption says, mother...umma..." title="a screenshot of umma's table by yeon-sik hong, an illustration of the main character as a child happily eating what his mother made for him. the caption says, mother...umma..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf2694e0-8037-4c8e-b5a0-0e7f4ed79048_1200x531.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Umma’s Table, Yeon-Sik Hong</figcaption></figure></div><p>After that I took a brief trip to Boston. On the plane ride back, in the dark and looking at the slow writhe of clouds out the window, I read poetry for the first time in a while — <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780375712074">Come, Thief</a> by Jane Hirschfield, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780593300237">Time is a Mother</a> by Ocean Vuong, and felt like I had finally walked upon some kind of clearing in a very deep forest where stuff was hanging out and chill and I was able to talk to it, at last, in a way that had been inaccessible to me for a long time. I think I am also just stuck on this metaphor because I am halfway through Long Strange Trip, which describes the Grateful Dead as the green meadow clearing in the forest of that age’s music industry. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":8893,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9db439b-9aae-4770-b325-d24c0ff303f5_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the last week of work before the holidays, when I was at my most exhausted, I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781683965343">Ultrasound</a> by Conor Stechschulte, which was twisty and made such interesting use of layers and pencil crayon that he made me mistrust the whole thing, except in a good way. Then <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781609457457">Heaven</a> by Mieko Kawakami (trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd) which I had started at the beginning of October, the very first book I checked out of the library branch next door after moving, which started quietly and also ended quietly, but still violent in such a realistic, internal way that makes it hard to forget. Finished with <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781517908454">This Wound is a World</a> by Billy-Ray Belcourt, whose exhibits and talks I had gone to a few times but had never actually read any of his work — enjoyed.</p><p>That’s all for now (and probably for the year). I had a very good time with books this year.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thank you, as always, for reading 💗</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[i'm entering my unapproachable nonfiction era]]></title><description><![CDATA[brian dillon, maria dahvana headley, my endless capacity for nerdiness]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/im-entering-my-unapproachable-nonfiction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/im-entering-my-unapproachable-nonfiction</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:25:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/daee91de-e62f-4d2f-bdfe-c88b94bd2711_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b9b5a14-1cf7-4cc5-b18c-44dda9090b80_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781681372822">Essayism</a> by Brian Dillon: essays about essays, except every essay is delicious, impossibly satisfying; the grass blowing on a cliff side, the murky storm closing in, a desk glowing warm with table-light, the ink, the light in the entryway catching on the lock, a smear of honey, seeing the only word to describe something like a clearing in the woods, hearing it bury itself into your sentence again again again…<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33ea89ae-7714-473c-92f1-c4606bd7dcb2_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33ea89ae-7714-473c-92f1-c4606bd7dcb2_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33ea89ae-7714-473c-92f1-c4606bd7dcb2_1400x200.png 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33ea89ae-7714-473c-92f1-c4606bd7dcb2_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33ea89ae-7714-473c-92f1-c4606bd7dcb2_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>On the death of a moth, humiliation, the Hoover Dam and how to write; an inventory of objects on the author’s desk, and an account of wearing spectacles, which he does not; what another learned about himself the day he fell unconscious from his horse; of noses, of cannibals, of method; diverse meanings of the word lumber; many vignettes, published over decades, in which the writer, or her elegant stand-in, described her condition of dislocation in the city, and did it so blithely that no one guessed it was all true; a dissertation on roast pig; a heap of language; a tour of the monuments; a magazine article that in tone and structure so nearly resembles its object, or conceals it, that flummoxed readers depart in droves; a sentence you could whisper in the ear of a dying man; an essay upon essays; on the author’s brief and oblique friendship with the great jazz singer; a treatise on melancholy, also on everything else; a species of drift or dissolve, at the levels of logic and language, that time and again requires the reader to page back in wonder—how did we get from there to here?—before the writer’s skill (or perhaps his inattention); a sermon on death, preached in the poet’s final days on earth, before a picture of his own shrouded person; the metaphoric power of same: the womb a grave, the grave a whirlpool, Death’s hand stretched to save us; a long read; a short history of decay; a diary’s prompt towards self-improvement: “To sew on my buttons (+ button my lip)”; on a dancer arrayed like an insect or a ray of light; love, alphabetized; life, alphabetized; every second of a silent clown’s appearance on screen, dissected: “We commit a cruelty against existence if we do not interpret it to death”; on the cows outside the window: their movement and mass, their possible emotions; what happened next will amaze you; upon a time a dutiful thing, set and judged by teachers, proof because proof needed—of what?</p><p>Brian Dillon, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781681372822">Essayism</a>. </em>I put the whole paragraph because as soon as I read this I was like, ohhh I’m in for it. The style! The textures! </p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36da53fb-8437-43f5-84ca-a98a5eb68081_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After finishing <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781681372822">Essayism</a> I started full-time work, which fully absorbed me into its calendar-sharing, self-optimizing rhythms. Three days later I finished <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780374110031">Beowulf: A New Translation</a> by Maria Dahvana Headley, a six month undertaking that for me, dragged in the middle but ended with a ringing clear in my head like a bell; it captured the dudes being dudes vibe. Guys being dudes, with intention. Her writing about Grendel’s mother, the dynamics of guys in bars jostling each other for attention, how her own pregnancy & motherhood gripped the whole endeavor. It reminds me of how much I loved those author’s notes at the end of manga volumes, or author’s notes in general. Early love for the <a href="https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/essentials-autoethnography-sample-chapter.pdf">autoethnography</a>.</p><p>Here’s a little bit so you can get an idea of her modern, slangy translation:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207b8eca-aea3-42f0-8a97-781ab7ef2d00_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text">...did all this grieving the way men do,   
but, bro, no man knows, not me, not you,  
 how to get to goodbye. His guys tried.   
They remembered the right words. Our king!   
Lonely ring-wielder! Inheritor of everything!   
He was our man, but every man dies.
Here he is now! Here our best boy lies!   
He rode hard! He stayed thirsty! He was the man!   
He was the man.
Maria Dahvana Headley, <em>Beowulf: A New Translation</em></pre></div><p>Then I underestimated how much work would start to affect my thinking. To understand what on earth folks on Twitter are talking about all the time I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781982167387">Building a Second Brain</a> by Tiago Forte, which I disliked, but then begrudgingly adopted some of his frameworks for file organization at work. The horror! After that I despaired about ever reading a practical self help book that I could vibe with, which is when I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9783982438801">How to Take Smart Notes</a> by Sönke Ahrens. In the peak of my <a href="https://obsidian.md/">Obsidian</a> obsession, I found a lot of relief in its structure. It was wildly nerdy without being greasy. </p><p>I wanted to get these on a page so I can move on to better, sillier books. These were few, but influential.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thanks, as always, for reading 💖💗</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>a john banville reference that lives in my head except slightly altered from the <a href="https://theparisreview.org/interviews/5907/the-art-of-fiction-no-200-john-banville">original interview</a>, in this other i<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/146966/angel-nafis-vs-observation">nterview with angel nafis</a>. memories are crazy like that:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d582f84-8970-4b55-81f9-b5f83a1ccdea_738x136.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d582f84-8970-4b55-81f9-b5f83a1ccdea_738x136.png 424w, 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Aug 2022 20:02:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6831ab8-28ca-4be7-aa74-e7a803180ffc_2862x2160.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa405aabb-8d42-4075-ac88-6628e3b2720b_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa405aabb-8d42-4075-ac88-6628e3b2720b_3840x2160.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It starts with <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780142413814">Boy</a> by Roald Dahl, which I forgot to mention in my last letter. While reading I feel like I suddenly understand why his books were Like That, which I am reassured by because it makes me think that being alive a is good enough reason to justify making art. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66e5631b-73b1-426c-b7c8-549353538888_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Then shortly after, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781648276453">Boy meets Maria</a> by Peyo (Kousei Eguchi), which is interesting and sad, and I find out right after reading it that Eguchi passed away a few years ago at 23, which now feels to me like such a young age. I’m 22 and I know nothing still. I forgo novels and nonfiction and read a lot of manga at the end of July. Summer makes me starving for comics. It’s a routine that I’ve gone through without fail for maybe seventeen years. Life goes on.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":19859,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f683754-b47f-493b-810d-154b90b655f9_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the middle of August, against the looming dread of summer ending, I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780316392426">Calypso</a> by David Sedaris, which was our book club’s monthly read. It was my turn this month to pick and I got all carried away with typing up book summaries about books I hadn’t read. I felt this thick undercurrent of sadness that the author kept glancing against, but not quite looking at directly, which makes it sound like Fleabag, but not nearly as funny. After that, I feel that a dam has been broken and I sit down and read <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781555977658">Ongoingness</a> by Sarah Manguso in nearly one sitting after calling some of my friends for hours. As Sarah Manguso does, she cuts through that goopy sense of time that being in a call put me in, and because I was thinking about the passage of time at night it took me forever to fall asleep. </p><p>Next is <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781982122126">Animal</a> by Lisa Taddeo, which is many things, including violent, immersive, direct, and so specific I feel as though she’s clotheslining me with some of the stuff she says. I resist the urge to say I love reading about unhinged women because I don’t want to boil things down, but.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a406978-f59f-413e-af34-9358be72b89d_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>A tall half-stranger emerged, wearing diamonds, face still rouged from the night before. She smelled like sour flowers. My brown wool life was all gone. — Lisa Taddeo, <em>Animal</em></p></blockquote><p>And then, at the suggestion of my friend F, I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780811231350">The Employees</a> by Olga Ravn (trans. Martin Aitken) in three frenzied hours, in which I constantly sat there, burning with that feeling of, I will never read something like this again. I will never write something like this ever. And it was translated so tenderly; when I finished I sat there thinking about how much the work of translators has really changed my life. Both in introducing me to the most gorgeous works and making me sensitive to languages: how they differ, but not by thaaat much, and how politically charged translation is. I won’t be recovering from this:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png" width="1400" height="200" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":200,"width":1400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":11518,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6c3135a-dd7a-4e55-994d-eb1e0d6a2b1b_1400x200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>And what would it mean to know that these two rooms contained every space we ever occupied, every morning (November on Earth, five degrees Celsius, sun dazzling low in the morning sky, the child in the carrier seat on the back of the bicycle), every day (the ivy reddening in the frost on the outside of the office building) and every night (in the room below the stone pines, someone’s breath upon your eyelid), and that every place you ever knew existed there in these two recreation rooms, like a ship floating freely in darkness, encompassed by dust and crystals, without gravity, without earth, in the midst of eternity; without water and rivers, without offspring, without blood; without the creatures of the sea, without the salt of the oceans, and without the waterlily stretching up through the cloudy pond towards the sun? — Olga Ravn, <em>The Employees</em> (trans. Martin Aitken)</p></blockquote><p>That’s all for this little bit. I liked literally every book I read this month.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thanks for reading, as always 💖📖</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[loving my 3-word titles basically]]></title><description><![CDATA[mary karr, jessica au, jenny offill, and many others]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/loving-my-3-word-titles-basically</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/loving-my-3-word-titles-basically</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:40:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3eb8012f-d6b6-4ca7-ba6a-c81eefba021a_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F688743e3-8ec5-4cc3-a30e-20416a42d852_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I like to stretch my nights out by reading graphic novels. Finishing a book before I brush my teeth makes me feel like I’m cheating time, which is a topic I should be discussing with my therapist, but instead I read <a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-lie-and-how-we-told-it">The Lie and How We Told It</a> by Tommi Parrish, which has a gorgeous cover and plays with the same panel size on repeat. The vibe is similar to Ottessa Moshfegh, Sally Rooney, Kate Zambreno (as in, dialogue heavy melancholy white people). Days later I finish <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780143035749">The Liars’ Club</a> by Mary Karr, which might ruin other memoirs for me forever. I think constantly now about her lush, spiky voice and how I wish to one day write like her. I beg my friends to read it, and to sell it to them I describe the book as 'Junie B. Jones' for adults because it is scrappy as hell. </p><p>For book club at the end of June (we picked books late last month) I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/red-russia-9781370068876/9781370068876">Red Russia </a>by Tanya Thompson, which is this odd little book structured by the tarot arcana that rips at corporate speak. I enjoy it but feel weird afterward, which is soothed by<a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL37051999M/Love_my_life"> Love my Life</a><a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-lie-and-how-we-told-it"> </a>by Ebine Yamaji, a manga with such a grounded, hopeful through-line I might as well be dipping my hands in a clear stream. After that, I drive with my family to the Gaspé peninsula in Quebec to dip my hands in some actual clear streams. The first half of the trip I read <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/100-boyfriends/9780374538989">100 Boyfriends</a><a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-lie-and-how-we-told-it"> </a>by Brontez Purnell and send my friend a bunch of quotes because we get a kick out of Brontez Purnell (as I said to S, funny, articulate, AND a musician? You can’t have it all bestie). Then, <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/hurricane-girl/9780593320884">Hurricane Girl</a><a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-lie-and-how-we-told-it"> </a>by Marcy Dermansky, which I like for its baldness and how close it feels to that hot fuzz of thinking when you have a fever. <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-pervert/9781534307414">The Pervert</a> by Remy Boydell and Michelle Perez, which is also constrained in its paneling but the protagonist is on the brink of crying almost always and so I like it way more than The Lie and How We Told It. <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/wetlands-9780802144690/9780802144690">Wetlands</a> by Charlotte Roche (trans. Tim Mohr) gets me putting down my snacks several times but clutching tightly to the book until it's done. Surprisingly romantic also. Another romance: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/acts-of-service/9780593243763">Acts of Service</a> by Lillian Fishman which is wildly cerebral and frustrates me sometimes. I appreciate it still for its earnestness and highlight a shit ton of it. During a 16-hour long internet outage I hang out in a parking lot with my dad and read <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/dept-of-speculation/9780345806871">Dept. of Speculation</a> by Jenny Offill, which has parts that really make me ache.</p><p>Then I spend the next few days reading <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-atlas-six-9781250854544/9781250854513">The Atlas Six</a> by Olivie Blake with my friend S, which I do not vibe with so much that deleting it off my e-reader feels like clearing out my tabs after handing in a project. Good vibes: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/cold-enough-for-snow-9781913097769/9780811231558">Cold Enough for Snow</a> by Jessica Au, which is so elegant and smooth that reading it looks like gazing into my own mind. <em>Next to You</em> by basso, which is understated and a has beautiful representation of silence and white space in panels. I liked pretty much everything I read this month.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg 848w, 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data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1099,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2662147,"alt":"“They reminded me of the seasons and, in their bare, visible threads, of something lovely and honest that had now been forgotten, a thing we could only look at but no longer live.” Jessica Au","title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="“They reminded me of the seasons and, in their bare, visible threads, of something lovely and honest that had now been forgotten, a thing we could only look at but no longer live.” Jessica Au" title="“They reminded me of the seasons and, in their bare, visible threads, of something lovely and honest that had now been forgotten, a thing we could only look at but no longer live.” Jessica Au" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F369d0ae1-44c0-4e70-b8c9-d5d396676859_2862x2160.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">gorgeous book. that’s all for now, see you later. byeeeeee</figcaption></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">thanks for reading, as always <3</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[plenty of one liners here...]]></title><description><![CDATA[krista tippett, c pam zhang, ali hazelwood, and more]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/plenty-of-one-liners-here</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/plenty-of-one-liners-here</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:00:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ae3958b7-10d1-4785-b646-6c826f3be4fc_2862x2160.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3823250,"alt":"a collection of the books i read, detailed below","title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="a collection of the books i read, detailed below" title="a collection of the books i read, detailed below" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d665d2-c8ec-4240-9eb8-5234664d6543_3840x2160.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>what's up saucy readers! this biweekly period I experimented with creating a book cover inspired by one of the books I read. I'd like to get better at graphic design. but first, the books I read:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png" width="970" height="152" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":152,"width":970,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":32176,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70b4f39c-a896-4e56-b45c-18d7936b3214_970x152.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><ul><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780525537212">how much of these hills is gold</a> by c pam zhang — novel. two orphaned chinese siblings wander around a mining town during the gold rush + try to survive. felt kinda like walking in circles for 400 pages</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781524852450">everything is beautiful, and I'm not afraid</a> by Yao Xiao — comics. collection of individual comics from social media. yeah I feel kinda empowered after looking at my cute and beautiful images.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781584350804">the coming insurrection</a> by the invisible committee — essays. an french anarchist critique of leftist politics + solutions. was gonna get kept up all night thinking about the critiques but then I was like, whaaaaa? about the solutions</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780593336823">the love hypothesis</a> by ali hazelwood — novel. phd student falls in love with prickly adam-driver inspired professor. I see why u freaks are into this!! but not for me!!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780393679434">the waste land and other poems</a> by t. s. eliot — poetry. well I finally am seeing what the deal is with this guy. he straight up writes whatever letters he wants and then is like whats not clicking. when I stopped reading the explanations for stuff I liked it a lot more.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781501197277">the courage to be disliked</a> by fumitake koga and ichiro kishimi — nonfiction, psychology. spent like 80% of the book being annoyed at the youth for asking bad faith questions and not asking the questions I wanted to know the answer to. mind ur business!!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781101980316">becoming wise</a> by krista tippett — nonfiction. collection of krista's conversations from her podcast, on being with krista tippett. lovely kind hopeful thing to end these two weeks on!</p></li></ul><h1>cover redesign: becoming wise by krista tippett</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50f0818e-c69e-451e-90ee-f355f16430e0_3840x2160.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50f0818e-c69e-451e-90ee-f355f16430e0_3840x2160.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50f0818e-c69e-451e-90ee-f355f16430e0_3840x2160.png 848w, 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7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">it’s simple… but i had some fun!</figcaption></figure></div><p>here’s a side by side - i’ve been thinking i want to play around more with design but was puzzling with how to do that. was thinking i might do a book cover redesign of one of the books i enjoyed every couple weeks. i really love the original book cover for becoming wise…so gorgeously simple. we’ll see how it goes!</p><p>anyway, that’s all for now. byeeeee <3</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[commonalities between shounen manga and queer literary fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[it's the bare chests for emotional effect lol]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/commonalities-between-shounen-manga</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/commonalities-between-shounen-manga</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95284fff-dadc-4f87-af61-e2b688849dc3_2862x2160.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">if you like these updates or are looking for books to read, pop in your email here :)</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>these last two weeks I'd describe my reading as frenzied-over-comics, laid-back-over-words:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781984831927">house of salt and sorrows</a> by erin a craig — horror mystery YA based on the 12 dancing princesses. was pretty hooked after finally hitting the halfway mark but the ending confused me?!?! unfortunately I didn’t vibe, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I wanted to keep reading and also how creeped out i was</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781974715466">spy x family vol 3-4</a> by tatsuya endo — continued adventures of a spy + his cobbled together fake family. the entire internet seems to be simping for the assassin pretending to be his wife…still silly and fun and im looking forward to see how things get soapy and existential in the way that I like.. <3</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780374159122">four thousand weeks</a> by oliver burkeman — the anti-self help self help book. very kindly and often funny, this british dude basically found peace by giving up. actually a wonderfully comforting read that reminds u that life is beautiful NOW</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780374124588">cleanness</a> by garth greenwell — american teacher in europe mopes and looks at things sensually…actually I think he has a very hypnotic, spellcasty kind of voice, very rhythmic, very tender…but this is definitely a dude writing about dudes! which is why I think it worked so well actually. anyway</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781421530680">hunter x hunter vol. 20-30</a> by yoshihiro togashi — 12 year olds discover the transformative nature of friendship and fight people with their soul magic… I dunno yall. they got me too. i know the target audience is 12 year old boys. I just finished the second last arc. feeling kinda inconsolable rn abt the shape that love takes…bro…</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781558614314">since I laid my burden down</a> by brontez purnell — promiscuous guy goes back for his uncle's funeral and thinks many thoughts. HILARIOUS… I was wheezing and crying and read it in one sitting. kind of leaves u with many questions and concerns but still. enjoyed the ride</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781684155064">eat and love yourself</a> by sweeney boo — girl with an eating disorder finds a magic chocolate bar that takes her into the past to reconcile with her memories. beautiful art!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781421533766">dorohedoro vol 3</a> by Q hayashida — lizard guy tries to find the wizard (I think they are actually called sorcerors. but wizard rhymes) who turned him into a lizard lol…the art is SO good.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781553655855">how to make love to a negro without getting tired</a> by dany laferrière — narrator walks around montreal, sleeps with women, and writes. reads very modernly and I am enchanted by the humour. the sentence structure makes me wriggle with delight…great translation!!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780761178972">show your work!</a> by austin kleon — a little how to book with 10 practical tips on how to get noticed as a creator. I liked the tips and it made me want to work on these newsletters and be a little more open to building community online. before I was very hesitant to reveal any kind of personal information, what projects I was working on, what I was up to, but then I think being public abt these things has helped me find other ppl who are very cool too… so</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780761169253">steal like an artist</a> by austin kleon — a similar 10 practical tips book that I read after show your work. I don’t think I am the intended audience for these books</p></li><li><p><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/acc644cc-4769-4462-b543-a4f8dae0e6b7">river's edge</a> by kyoko okazaki — high school students go to a school close to a river bank. totally thought it was going to be a lighthearted read but it was actually very moody, emotionally charged, and dramatic … very good. felt very realistic to how cruel + kind teens can be</p></li></ul><p>overall good vibes as always. if you know any of these books leave a comment. see you laterrrr <3</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/commonalities-between-shounen-manga/comments","text":"Leave a comment","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/commonalities-between-shounen-manga/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[it's chic...it's french]]></title><description><![CDATA[a new, biweekly short-form letter about books!]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/its-chicits-french</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/its-chicits-french</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 19:05:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/12890cbd-3cb7-423c-85d1-ccf4cf741fbe_2862x2160.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0642ba57-2955-4f19-bca3-601125842241_3840x2160.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>hey :) I thought it might be fun to tell you about some books & occasionally other media like I talk about them with my friends — very short form and with very poor descriptions. I hope this helps you find something you like.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/its-chicits-french?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/its-chicits-french?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h1>let's get into the books woot woot</h1><ul><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781328662057">maybe you should talk to someone by lori gottlieb</a> — therapist goes to see another therapist. while reading it I think it's going to be another marketable self help book but instead it turns out to be a really nicely written marketable memoir, almost. brought me to tears a couple times</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780060932138">the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera</a> — kind of a love story. dude talks about poop and shit for several pages. when he does it its intellectual and rather heartwrenching. when I do it people look scared and say "I'm eating dinner". make it make sense <3 anyway i liked this a lot</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781608464661">men explain things to me by rebecca solnit</a> — essay collection. first essay is about how she pwns this random guy at a party. good read. she has a very accessible way of making arguments. blitzed thru it in a day bc I couldn't stop!!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780593158272">fleabag: the scriptures by phoebe waller-bridge</a> — play about this very wretched woman who faces the consequences of being alive… this is my third time going through this story but I was still wheezing at like 1 am reading this. pwb I want to see the inside of your brain</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781421533766">dorohedoro vol 2 by Q hayashida</a> —  grungy manga about this dude who has a lizard head and doesn't know why. very interesting, unique art that is also pretty thirsty but Q hayashida makes it valid. immersive universe where the magic system is basically pollution. i think if you thirst over manga characters you would thirst over these characters</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9781974715466">spy x family vol 2 by tatsuya endo</a> — spy guy needs to create the illusion of a married family for his latest mission. very cute and as of right now, lighthearted. I am reading this in french. I am learning many vocabulary words for weapons</p></li><li><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83868/9780593298350">disorientation by elaine hsieh chou</a> — taiwanese american phd student questions her phd, then her white fiance. SO FUNNY I was covering my mouth reading this… constantly asking ingrid girl why are you doing this… but also you are so valid girl…</p></li></ul><p>I really liked all these books!! what a great month for reading :) anyway that’s all for now. hope you enjoy. see you laterrr 💗</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[atomic habits ]]></title><description><![CDATA[or an interrogation of what is up with self help books these days lol]]></description><link>https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/atomichabits</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/atomichabits</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:25:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4a63ff0e-47e5-40d8-ac2c-537af8694a19_2000x1500.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>here we go <3 </h1><p>this is less of a book review and more so the start of my long-winded tirade against self help books. i have a weird relationship with them. i hate them but i can't stop reading them. LOL!!!! 🤣😂🤣🤣 </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc06cdf2-eba7-45b5-9950-d8f7c3c881f9_2000x1500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc06cdf2-eba7-45b5-9950-d8f7c3c881f9_2000x1500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc06cdf2-eba7-45b5-9950-d8f7c3c881f9_2000x1500.jpeg 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc06cdf2-eba7-45b5-9950-d8f7c3c881f9_2000x1500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc06cdf2-eba7-45b5-9950-d8f7c3c881f9_2000x1500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc06cdf2-eba7-45b5-9950-d8f7c3c881f9_2000x1500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">look at it… look at this book cover and its compelling whispers…</figcaption></figure></div><p>self help books are packaged so compellingly - they tell you your life will be so much better after you read them. if you just make that one tiny change or apply some life hack, your life will magically improve. it sounds too good to be true. it usually is. and this is where my problem with these books lies: they're selling an impossible dream. i think it's symptomatic of a greater issue, where as a society (especially younger folks!) we feel so dissatisfied with our lives. especially if we’ve grown up with privilege - i think it’s why we reach for the self help book in the first place. we're convinced we're living the wrong way, that we can't start living until we graduate, or we get a dream job, or we move to a new city. the weight of these questions: how can i live the most meaningful life possible? how can i make the most with so little time? how can i do all the things i want to do in my life? an oasis, suddenly: these self-help expert videos, multiplying like gorgon heads, the limited-edition on-sale time management courses, the prioritization softwares designed by 20-year-old silicon valley bros; i kneel down and scoop my hands into the water; endless how-to books with pleasing yet numbing illustrations, the tiktok # thatgirl trend, productivity hacks like a hand reaching down into the abyss, siren voice calling, <em>i did this and it changed my life and here's how you can do it too</em>; i drink from the water and it disappears like the mirage it is. </p><p>i'm distrustful of most self help books because they almost always position themselves as the gateway between you and a better life. the ultimate solution, if you can bear to part with the low, low price of $20. think of the returns! i get that books exist within a greater ecosystem of industry & how publishing the typical book is inextricable from someone, somewhere, needing to make money. but the marketing is ultimately dishonest. like north american research as a whole, the advice in these books almost always comes from the same perspective and voices -- white, heterosexual, middle/upper-class, christian, and able-bodied men. how do you give advice to people you don't take the time to know or care about? how do you trust someone who doesn't acknowledge your unique hardships? this has always been my problem with the self help book. </p><p>but also this is still a book review lol, and a book review it will be!!! <em>atomic habits: an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones by james clear</em> was, ultimately, not that bad. it provides a useful and accessible toolbox to the reader, explaining a little bit about why it works, and some case studies of when it REALLY works. if you think of it as a really long (and kind of annoying) manual for how to set better habits / break bad habits, it's pretty good. i made a summary graphic checklist thing of what i thought were the most important parts for you so you don't have to read it HAHAHA</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png 424w, 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png" width="1456" height="1456" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1456,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":992266,"alt":"a visual summary of atomic habits, which is summarized in his how to make a good habit section","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="a visual summary of atomic habits, which is summarized in his how to make a good habit section" title="a visual summary of atomic habits, which is summarized in his how to make a good habit section" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32ceefd7-1e4a-4db3-b393-e3f54679adba_4000x4000.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke-width="1.8" stroke="#000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M21 3V8M21 8H16M21 8L18 5.29962C16.7056 4.14183 15.1038 3.38328 13.3879 3.11547C11.6719 2.84766 9.9152 3.08203 8.32951 3.79031C6.74382 4.49858 5.39691 5.65051 4.45125 7.10715C3.5056 8.5638 3.00158 10.2629 3 11.9996M3 21V16M3 16H8M3 16L6 18.7C7.29445 19.8578 8.89623 20.6163 10.6121 20.8841C12.3281 21.152 14.0848 20.9176 15.6705 20.2093C17.2562 19.501 18.6031 18.3491 19.5487 16.8925C20.4944 15.4358 20.9984 13.7367 21 12" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg></div><div class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">not all of these are possible to implement for everyone, which is annoying, but i hope you find something useful here <3</figcaption></figure></div><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/atomichabits?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share"}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">if you like what you’re getting so far, give this a share! thanks for reading noodledesk :)</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/atomichabits?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share"}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://noodledesk.substack.com/p/atomichabits?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h1>ok it’s not that bad</h1><p>atomic habits works off the philosophy of compounding, which is why it's so intensely alluring (see the hundreds of videos with millions of views about how to become 37x better at something. it's from this book). you want the exponential returns. you want to make a tiny, easy change to your life and reap the huge benefits. here's an excerpt that illustrates its overarching philosophy:</p><blockquote><p>Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.</p></blockquote><p>it's certainly attractive. but i don't think we can think of our human selves and identities as things to be compounded. it sets an unrealistic standard. we're tempted to think of our life as an investment account, where, if you put in a certain amount of work or effort, the returns will be exponential. but we’re active participants in our life. we can’t passively put in work at the very beginning and wait for it to compound like an investment account. to be consistent with something you need to put in MORE effort over time, not less. </p><p>i think this applies to everything. relationships take work, and the more precious people become to you, the more work that relationship takes. this isn't a bad thing, nor is it something to be avoided. clear talks about this other plateau, the Plateau of Latent Potential, where habits you work at seem to make no difference to the outcome you want until you cross a critical threshold, after which you begin to see progress. but this is not the plateau i'm talking about. i'm talking about the point at which you get pretty good at something. beyond the intermediate plateau of language learning, playing an instrument, painting, and writing, you realize there is so much more that you need to learn and there is so much you don't know. it's thrilling and it's the reality. you need constant practice just to maintain these skills, let alone improve at them. and your work and career - the more responsibility, prestige, and opportunities you receive, the more work you need to do. i suspect this is true for anything that calls for time and energy and that's the wonderful thing about it. look at all these things we can sink our teeth into and enrich our life with! </p><p>i DO think he's onto something with caring about the process instead of the product, though habits do affect our life in some way, ultimately - that can't necessarily be separated from the outcome or product he talks about. but it is a nice thought:</p><blockquote><p>When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.</p></blockquote><p>i think this leads well into my other main thought about this book: even if we consistently achieve the habits we want to achieve, our life might not actually get better. we might not be happier. it's not like, once I wake up at 4 am and take cold showers and save money more wisely that I can relax and focus on what really makes me happy and what will make my life great. what is the point of these habits and outcomes? are we morally obligated to live extraordinary, notable lives? are we all destined for greatness? underneath it all, this book seems to think so. i challenge that with this quote from 4000 weeks, by oliver burkeman:</p><blockquote><p>“No wonder it comes as a relief to be reminded of your insignificance. It’s the feeling of realizing that you’d been holding yourself all this time to standards you couldn’t reasonably be expected to meet. And this realization isn’t merely calming, but liberating, because once you’re no longer burdened by such an unrealistic definition of a life well spent, you’re free to consider the possibility that many more things than you’d previously imagined might qualify as meaningful ways to use your finite time. You’re freed, too, to consider the possibility that many of the things you’re already doing with it are more meaningful than you’d supposed and that until now, you’d subconsciously been devaluing them on the grounds that they weren’t ‘significant’ enough. From this new perspective, it becomes possible to see that preparing nutritious meals for your children might matter as much as anything could ever matter, even if you won’t be winning any cooking awards, or that your novel’s worth writing if it moves or entertains a handful of your contemporaries, even though you know you’re no Tolstoy, or that virtually any career might be a worthwhile way to spend a working life, if it makes things slightly better for those it serves.”</p></blockquote><p>ultimately, habits can have a lot of power and influence in improving the quality of your life and the lives of your communities, which is a beautiful and freeing thing. but where are you finding dissatisfaction? how perfect can your life become? what happens if you DON'T accomplish all the beautiful things you want to do in your life? maybe, instead, acknowledging that we can't do it all, this ultimate and feared truth, is what actually will set us free.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://noodledesk.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">noodledesk is a reader-supported publication. to receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>

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