The Art of the Memoir DFW Where be your jibes now? Your breakup is boring

Jesus Shaves by David Sedaris Ashamed to say that I’m discovering David Sedaris this late. Maybe it’s because I prefer
Ever since I stopped working full-time and moved out to live on my own, people have been asking me this

Misattributed to Karl Ove Knausgård and Annie Dillard’s Teaching a stone to talk. Audio. Guardian. The Writing Life But also

… my arm hurts maybe 10% more than the rest.

Ten years later, I learn the name of this Russian poet: Anna Akhmatova. And just for fun, here’s the poem