We the Parasites
By: A.V. Marraccini
3.91
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
"But I’m not the fig, I’m the wasp. I burrow into sweet, dark places of fecundity, into novels and …
Want to Read"Rage can’t obliterate memory, it just goes over it, another coat of red until it becomes deeper to the eye."-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
"Rage can’t obliterate memory, it just goes over it, another coat of red until it becomes deeper to the eye."-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
"Learning to be a parasite is the crucible of unmet longing for that something-else that can complete you, enfolded somewhere, still perhaps hidden."-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
"Learning to be a parasite is the crucible of unmet longing for that something-else that can complete you, enfolded somewhere, still perhaps hidden."-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
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"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. The Wild Iris
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4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
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4. The Walk
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4.20
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Walser's alternate, preferred version of his most famous tale. A pseudo-biographical "stroll" throu… read more
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4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
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3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
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4.53
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"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
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14. Who's Afraid of Gender?
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19. We the Parasites
By: A.V. Marraccini
3.91
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
"But I’m not the fig, I’m the wasp. I burrow into sweet, dark places of fecundity, into novels and … read more
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"Learning to be a parasite is the crucible of unmet longing for that something-else that can complete you, enfolded somewhere, still perhaps hidden."-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
"Taste can be cultivated, a sort of eros of wanting certain things, but behind taste is the throbbing want that is perhaps closest to the parasitic, Darwinian imperative."-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
"To write or read on the precipice feels right in this moment in particular, as if it is coming into a new fullness, a wholeness which was not possibly entirely in the complacency of our living before…"-A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
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21. Tongueless
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"Many questions in the world don’t have answers, and even if you get an answer, what can be changed?"-Lau Yee-Wa, Tongueless
