The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan
The Universal History of Inequity by Jorge Luis Borges
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
Women by Charles Bukowski
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
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Here I kept calling The Gift one of your "lesser novels" to people who asked me about it, and then you knock me off my feet with the most beautiful encapsulation of the mystery of existence I have ever, ever read ( Read more... )

"I had recently been taking a lot of vitamin E. I had my own ideas about sex. I was constantly horny and masturbated continually. I'd make love to Lydia and then come back to my place and masturbate in the morning. The thought of sex as something forbidden excited me beyond all reason. It was like one animal knifing another into submission ( Read more... )

"Nor would Pola have understood why at night he held back his breath to listen to her sleep, spying out the sounds of her body. Face up, satisfied, she was breathing heavily, and hardly if ever, out of some uncertain dream, did she move a hand or exhale by raising her lower lip and blowing the air up towards her nose. Horacio remained still, his ( Read more... )

The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
Ibid. by Mark Dunn
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Washington Square by Henry James
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Heart of Darkness by ( Read more... )

"We had to look for him in this spade part of town most of the time. Man, he'd be blasting with every mad cat he could find. One night we lost him and took a hotel room. We were supposed to bring ice back to Jane because her food was rotting. It took us two days to find Hassel. I got hung-up myself--I gunned shopping women in the afternoon, ( Read more... )

It snowed.

I just sneezed so hard my glasses fell off my forehead and got caught on my chin. Then I sneezed again, all over them.

Varsity.

"Sail away, sail away, sail away."

-Enya

I graduated from college earlier this week.

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I've never had a breakup where I just straight up got sick enough of a person to just break up with them. I bet it will happen at some point in my life...and I have to be honest, I'm kind of looking forward to it. Breakups I have had: circumstantial, phase-out, being dumped, mutual, we-were-never-really-dating. I have never, however, had a ( Read more... )