In Defense of the Baby Shower
not that they really need defending?| a newsletter
Or: The Old Wives' Tale| www.sympatheticopposition.com
If you have to ask if something's ambiguous, it's ambiguous, right?| a newsletter
By the second chapter, I caught myself luxuriating in a sense of richness and naturalism that is maybe not in fashion today, thinking this is like a 19th century novel. Off by eleven years! On Beauty (2005) is a reworking of Forster’s 1910 Howards End| a newsletter
Less purple elephants, more logic and discipline.| a newsletter
I bet your ass didn't even know you had a color season| a newsletter
And also: what recipe brain even is, that you should want to cure it| a newsletter
It only seems harder sometimes because it's hard to believe how easy it is| a newsletter
I may have read non-library books, but I have no record of them.| a newsletter
Rumors of the death of narrative have been greatly exaggerated.| a newsletter
Nick Hornby has a post on reviewing and being reviewed, subheaded “Books need your kindness now more than ever.” I haven’t read the whole post because it’s paywalled and I have decided not to pay. But the subhead struck me as odd.| a newsletter
For better or for worse.| www.sympatheticopposition.com
essays, stories, and poems largely about books, cooking, & people. Click to read a newsletter, by sympathetic opposition, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| www.sympatheticopposition.com
Good taste is the capacity for pleasure, and the discernment to find it.| www.sympatheticopposition.com
