F. Scott Fitzgerald I cannot precisely recall the moment I first decided to pick up this book. Perhaps I was driven by my urge to enter the rampant cynicism and alcoholism of the Jazz Age—prominent in all of Fitzgerald’s work. Or maybe, like all other pretentious literary nerds out there, I believed it held someContinue reading “The Beautiful & Damned”
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The Emperor of Gladness
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering” -Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness “The hardest thing in the world is to only live once,” Ocean Vuong writes. These opening linesContinue reading “The Emperor of Gladness”
Spilled Ink 