Confusion Is...

21/college girl/bicoastal "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." - Franz Kafka

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Author: Rhian Sasseen

When I am old I will think of Boston as the city where I became young. No one knows this better than Joan Didion, to whom the East and West Coasts of America have always meant very different things.

I first read Slouching Towards Bethlehem crouched inside a Smith…

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The Common Online: Hello and Goodbye: Joan Didion at Harvard Books

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