This is a month of inconsistency, of transition, of liminality. I'm so unsure about so many things. These are the songs to immortalize that feeling, let me live and bask in it.
1. "24-25" - Kings of Convenience
2. "Androgynous" - The Replacements
3. "Apricots" - Diet Cig
4. "Happy" - Mitski
5. "Bella Donna - Demo" - Stevie Nicks
6. "Talk Show Host" - Radiohead
7. "00000 Million - Ella Vos Spotify Cover (of Bon Iver)" - Ella Vos
8. "Mother and Father" - Broods
1. "Firelight," Young the Giant
2. "Dreams," The Cranberries
3. "Mystery of Love," Sufjan Stevens
4. "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." Simon and Garfunkel
5. "Moving Mountains," ANIMA!
6. "Half the World Away (cover)," AURORA
7. "Close to Me," The Cure
8. "Borders," St. Beauty
I love literature in all its many multifaceted forms. Novels. Essays. Fiction. Nonfiction. Short stories. Meditations on string cheese. Anything and everything (besides Ayn Rand, that is). Here's my list of some wonderful, aching, striking pieces of literature I highly recommend. This one is going to be very long- it encompasses my summer reading, much of last year, etc. Enjoy as I did. As Charles Bukowski puts it in his intro to Ask the Dust, "It is now yours."
Books
Jenny Zhang- Sour Heart
Flannery O'Connor- Everything That Rises Must Converge
Roxane Gay- Hunger, Difficult Women
Brad Watson- Miss Jane
Jessica Valenti- Sex Object
Maggie Nelson- The Argonauts
Margaret Atwood- The Blind Assassin
Helen Oyeyemi- What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
Essays/Longreads
Jennifer Berney- "A Menagerie of Strays"
Jo Ann Beard- "The Fourth State of Matter"
Dylan Tupper Rupert- "Everything Changes All the Time"
Gabrielle Montesanti- "On Piss"
Emily Ziff Griffin- "Ugly Crying in Public"
Laura Spence-Ash- "Desire Lines"