Eli Devine > Recent Status Updates

We are so fucking back

I’m really liking Breakfast of Champions can you tell

Starting this as an audiobook at work to persevere through the horrors.

Gnossienes

Putting my time before work to good use

Super gay stuff happening in my household (rereading this). Happy pride!

Clémentine is who I wish to be

Ocean Vuong is able to detail the emotion of desire in a way that is as real as everything I’ve ever experienced. It is a sparse talent, and every time I encounter it I am brought to tears. This may be the first book to make me cry, but only time will tell.

Holy FUCK

Not sure how i feel about this one

Rereading this masterpiece — Oliver Ready translation (new to me!)

Was talking to a guy at the beginning of the year who I clicked with through a mutual interest of Beat poets. Through that experience I realized that I would have found these guys insufferable. Great work though. Pisses me off that Ginsberg would have liked him more than me. Alas.