"It seems to me that the writers we love most are those who manage to capture something we ourselves have thought and rejected, for being forbidden, dangerous, elusive, something that if we made room for it would undo something else we want to keep, so we force it away—literature as a catalogue of rejected thoughts. For the way they can hold onto what the rest of us would put away as dangerous, they become heroes, the ones who emerge with the one thing we hoped to keep secret, but know we need. When I say to you James Salter is one of my heroes, that is what I mean."
--From an essay by Alexander Chee
I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t
necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle
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When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But
when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss
Mornings begin with a si...
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