The parable of the sower by octavia butler: What If Feeling Too Much Is a Kind of Reading?
Butler’s fiction isn’t a diagnosis for me, and my experience isn’t evidence that her imagined syndrome exists outside the novel. Still, the resemblance was enough to make me feel unexpectedly understood.
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer: A Claustrophobic Dystopia or My Ideal World?
For the rest of your life, your sole companions will be your cousin’s dog, Lynx, a cow named Bella, and a feral cat.
Crowdsourced Syllabus
For the last four years, whenever a bCourses page is posted at the start of the semester, the first thing I do is view the syllabus. I’m drawn to classes where the book list is either familiar or totally outside of my scope, nothing in between.
Self-Doubt is a Writer’s Biggest Antagonist
Though I never would have admitted to this at the time, I was convinced there was something intrinsically unfixable with my writing that no amount of rewrites could solve.
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