What I'm Trying To Say Is
Nina Li Coomesunedited essays and attempts
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On knowing and feeling; birthgiving, again
Madonna and Child, Domoto Insho1
Dear friends,
I am doing very, very well.
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and of course by “very very well” I mean that I can feel exactly where the stitches are in my pelvic floor, that I can’t really stand and do things yet, that...
2025: the year in books (and then some)
My favorite four panel comic by Lynda Barry
“Literature has features that make it possible to experience the public without coercion and without submission. Literature refuses and disrupts passive or controlled consumption of the specta...
Ode to Standing Watch
When I was in middle school, I was a crossing guard. I put on a reflective orange belt which crossed my chest and waist and I’d stand on a pre-assigned corner of my Chicago Public School 30 minutes before drop-off and pick-up. I was 12, may...
Tokyo Notes
From 海獣の子供
Dear ones,
I finished a first draft of the novel last month and though I tried immediately to start the second one, the thing that came out of my fingers was flat and more than a little Disney (though I liked the odd twist it t...
2024: the year in books
(A limited edition cover for John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things)
Hi friends,
This is a bit of a lighter note than I usually go for on this forum. I apologize for the lack of forthcoming essays here; I’ve been very happily hard at...
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