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december consumption
these are forms of media that i frequently associate with december
books
Devotion, Patti Smith
A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin
After Dark, Haruki Murakami
The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe
Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
Untold Night and Day, Bae Suah
Paradais, Fernanda Melchor
articles/essays
Everything Visible Is Empty: Toshio Matsumoto, Stuart Monro-Mousse Magazine
As a city, Hong Kong confounds. The sheer aggressiveness, people jostling for trains or shouting from afar, somehow feels more intimate than unsettling.
A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty, Julian Lucas-NYT
(on Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor)
Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves, Alan Glynn-Lit Hub
Cannibal Manifesto, Oswald De Andrade
Strange Fruit: the first great protest song, Dorian Lynskey-The Guardian
poetry
The Denial of Death, Louise Glück
Funeral Blues, W.H Auden
A Quiet Poem, Frank O'Hara
Giving Up Smoking, Wendy Cope
I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, Yehuda Amichai
Last Curtain, Rabindranath Tagore
Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo
The Orange
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.