Welcome to this week’s edition of Open Tabs, where I share my recent reads, current obsessions, and media consumptions every Sunday!
I’m well into my thirties and I still wonder week after week: when is it all going to make sense? When will every piece come together? When will life feel whole? It’s difficult living as a work-in-progress, though I know there is no other way. This is it, the way it goes. Moments of happiness and joy and excitement surrounded by long streaks of chaos and confusion. I am trying harder to accept that, trying to be okay living without clarity.
This is another way for me to say: sometimes I lose my focus. Sometimes things that matter to me one week don’t matter the next. Priorities change. I let go of things but they come back to me. So here I am, back to share what has sparked my curiosity over the past month. Curiosity is a worthwhile endeavor. Follow it.
Reading [Books]
Here’s what I’ve read since my last letter. If I had to recommend just 1 book from this list, read Crooked Plow!
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
Bentos Sketchbook by John Berger
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec
Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (my semi-annual re-read)
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
Reading [Online]
sylvia plath and the fool’s journey (only poems)
james baldwin, an original (vogue archives)
the science of woo (asterisk)
Watching [YouTube]
I’ve been watching author and artist interviews over on the Louisiana Channel. I found it through this interview with Sophie Calle, then watched this one with Adania Shibli, and this one with Annie Ernaux. And I am now a little obsessed with Olga Ravn, despite not having read her books yet. They were already “on my TBR” but now they’re really on my TBR.
Also:
gentrification and its correlation to art (shannon kim)
Listening [Music]
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party — Hayley Williams
Listening [Podcast]
Poetry as Religion (The Gray Area)
Overthinking About Indecision (Magical Overthinking)
Chicken Soup for the Soul (Decoder Ring)
Safiya Sinclair on How to Say Babylon (Poured Over)
Googling
somatic exercises
Oblique strategies
Dr. Wen ho lee
“Nothing”
roth ira
oniros/oneiros
Books on my Radar [TBR]
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf
Previously…
Open Tabs #34
Welcome to this week’s edition of Open Tabs, where I share my recent reads, current obsessions, and media consumptions every Sunday!
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