The Bullet in My Mother’s Head, and an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature
Curated reads.
Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
My father passed through my life like a comet
The greatest piano prodigy you’ve never heard of
A letter to my lost sister
Going home
One day I’ll move back to India
The bullet in my mother’s head
Favorite Flash Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
Favorite Sentences I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
“But the one thing that seems pretty resilient is the pleasure one takes while writing—the alteration of the mind that takes place as we work a thing up the ladder, making it sharper and better—the person we are in those moments, that’s ours to keep.” –link
“We walk to travel; we walk to be in the world; we walk to be with ourselves; we walk to remember; and some of us walk to heal.” –link
“All writing advice should, maybe, have a question mark after it, or some as-yet-uninvented universal symbol meaning: “but only if it helps.”” –link
Favorite Paragraph I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
“One thought I’ve often had about success is this: none of it is solid or is guaranteed to last. A supposedly great book can be forgotten or become dated. Laurels fade pretty quickly. But the one thing that seems pretty resilient is the pleasure one takes while writing—the alteration of the mind that takes place as we work a thing up the ladder, making it sharper and better—the person we are in those moments, that’s ours to keep.” –link
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