"...such elegant sentences and sentiments that you find yourself immediately wanting to return to it..." NEW REVIEW of Opacities by Sofia Samatar. Thanks to @lizharmer.bsky.social for the review! https://buff.ly/4aKG0KH

"Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibility that they are founded on nothing." - John Ashbery

In the Didion/Babitz question I find I have stumbled from indifference to absolutely team Babitz