“A Different World… allowed me to see possibilities for what could be not just for me, but for everyone who loves to learn: intellectual curiosity, friendship, mentorship, argument, ambition, and belonging.”
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“We must be able to identify what about our current era produces conditions of harm so ubiquitous that every woman you know can tell a story of a time she or a loved one was abused, assaulted, followed, coerced, or any number of other examples of gendered violence.”
“I often experience sadness when thinking that I may be among the last living individuals who endeavor to build a personal library of this scale, but I also remind myself that the personal library has always been an exceptional thing.”
“I admit I was embarrassed by these public displays of faith—sing-alongs, holding hands, praying in public.”
Patrice Nganang, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Patrick Chamoiseau.
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.”
“For all the public iterations of Oliver’s afterlife, I find my own experience of his to be particular and private.”
“I was young, full of creative energy, filling black notebooks with pressed ballpoint ink. Time dilated because I was unbothered by the reality of lugging my dirty laundry down to the laundromat every few weeks or eating rice and beans day after day.”
“The feeling of wonder is not just the feeling of awe, the captivation of wild landscapes or the sun falling under the ocean’s rim at twilight. Wonder is a quiet strum in a churchyard with a tender hound bounding after rabbits.”
“Secrecy is the greenhouse in which addiction blooms, flourishes, and metastasizes.”
