State of Wonder: A Posture for a New Year
When you scan the books scattered among the shelves for something
— you haven’t yet read
— isn’t anything like this collection of autofiction* that all at once became ready to pick up at the library and is now accumulating on your side of the bed
{side note: Remember that book My Side of the Mountain? I’m proposing something called My Side of the Bed}
Up, down, sideways, wondering what’s going to stand out. And then you realize that the book you’ve landed on — so different from your favorites written by Ann Patchett — may have a title that presents a perfect posture to usher in a New Year.
{The Washington Post — with its column on the “Finding Awe” programming at the National Gallery — and the Atlantic — introducing a new feature called The Wonder Reader — clearly agree.}
#StateofWonder
** Why does autofiction often make me bristle so much? I don’t normally post about things I didn’t finish/like because it feels rude (?), but it’s not as if the authors will see this so here goes:
Checkout 19, Claire-Louise Bennett
How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti
The Four Spent the Day Together, Chris Kraus
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