Reading
- Drowning Practice by Mike Meginnis
- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
- She Is Haunted by Paige Clark
- True Heart Intuitive Tarot by Rachel True
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Listening
Stuck On
- Einaudi’s “Experience”—listen to the video, really.
- Using someone else’s novel as scaffolding for the draft you’re stuck on—see No. 5 of Zadie Smith’s brilliant That Crafty Feeling
- e.g., Rebecca Makkai’s The Hundred-Year House and The Westing Game
- e.g., Lan Samantha Chang’s The Family Chao and The Brothers Karamazov
- e.g., Kate Folk’s novel-in-progress and Moby Dick
- e.g., Patricia Park’s Re Jane and Jane Eyre