Some people write beautifully constructed, self-contained posts that read like essays. I'm not one of those people.

Two things:

Eunice: I haven't read too much Banana Yoshimoto, mostly because I get the hunch that a lot of her works will tend to read the same, but I really liked Kitchen when I read it. It's a collection of two novellas; Kitchen is the better of the two, and the other one (the title slips my mind - it's two words, but the first of them is 'moonlight' so you can probably get a feel of the kind of story it is) is decent. I'd ask someone to second the recommendation though, as I read it six years ago and my then-tastes had been severely tainted by my insecure middle school mentality.

and now everyone:
[a poet is] "anyone who makes the language live and who knows that the affair at Babel was both a disaster and - this being the etymology of the word 'disaster' - a rain of stars upon man."
- George Steiner, After Babel

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [4:05 AM]

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