Yu's Blog: a sinking arsonist
August 3, 2020
Those Exit Wounds
Skipping the widely read novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, I went directly to Ocean Vuong’s...
July 31, 2020
A Coined Quarantine Read: Zadie Smith's Intimations
A Coined Quarantine Read: Zadie Smith’s IntimationsAll kinds of “intimations” were forced upon us...
July 29, 2020
"How many masks wear we, and under masks,
Upon our countenance of soul, and when,
If for self-sport..."
“How many masks wear we, and under masks,
Upon our countenance of soul, and when,
If for...
Upon our countenance of soul, and when,
If for...
July 28, 2020
"We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others’..."
“We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of...
And each to each other dreams of...
July 27, 2020
"Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused..."
“Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be...
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be...
July 26, 2020
"To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to..."
“To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others,...
July 25, 2020
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends...
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends...
July 24, 2020
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The...
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The...
