megan rated Filterworld: 5 stars

Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
'The story told here is instrumental to your own' - Jared Lanier 'Timely, erudite, important' - Ayad Akhtar What happens …
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'The story told here is instrumental to your own' - Jared Lanier 'Timely, erudite, important' - Ayad Akhtar What happens …
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been …
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA …
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome …
Jens Christian Grøndahl: Often I am happy (2017)
"This elegant and nuanced literary gem explores the intricacies of friendship, secrets, and two marriages, for fans of The Dinner …
Surface level takes of more mainstream third-wave emo. Author associates DIY screamo acts as being more akin to grindcore than anything else, which feels like a miss (ideally, would hit more on nuances relating to emoviolence + skramz). Hits on the impact of MySpace, but foregoes any insights relating to Tumblr/Bandcamp and the emo revival that took off in 2012/13. Big emphasis on tri-state bands, and is sort of disparaging of bands coming from anywhere else.
"In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn …
Essentialism isn't about getting more done in less time. It's about getting only the right things done. Have you ever …
Kristen Iskandrian: Motherest (2017, Grand Central Publishing)
It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new college student, she …
"Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo--he's just a regular guy who was …