Books & suffering

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Books (she/her) is a reader; suffering is her former co-editor. An autoethnography of literary consecration, essayistic reckonings, fucked up feelings for readers who like to read.  

Your High is Pure

Re-reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

A man leads me to the back of the smoke shop, where he tries to sell me pre-rolls of weed. He is a confident man, with an accent I’m unable to identify and a salesman’s tough earnestness. In this Greenwich Village glass-pipe operation, he is in […]