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Every page winded me.

Even in the wordless frames, I sometimes wanted to cover my eyes or look away.

Essential reading for our times.

Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon

Scarier than a horror film, I found that I could not read it alone at night.

It was the closest Ive come to giving up the flesh (of animals).

I recently emailed Patricia Lockwood to ask her a favor even though we do not know each other.

Sabrina, by Nick Drnaso

Thats the kind of intimacy this excellent memoir about Patricias life, and family, fosters in its reader.

I wouldnt just bring this book to the desert island, Id beg Patricia to shipwreck there with me.

I want that quote chiseled onto my gravestone.

The Vegetarian, by Han Kang

There are sentences in this book that Id tattoo on my skin forever.

For anyone with daddy issues.

Brilliant, clever, and heartbreaking essays.

Priestdaddy, by Patricia Lockwood

Especially marvelous if you know Davids voice from his work on the radio programThis American Life.

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