Have you ever noticed you are dust and to dust you shall return? (Recent mass trends in jacket design are garish indeed, but the content and quality of the books themselves vary just like they always of. You could also read contemporary fiction from not America…)
Have you ever noticed that contemporary novels feel strangely empty?
It’s because publishers stopped publishing books for readers and started publishing books for MFA students.
Growing up we had this (allegedly) at the Sherman Oaks Galleria and it was called The White Room and my high school called an parents town hall to warn them about it which made us all want to find it more.
sometimes an album ends with a track that feels like it’s designed to be the last song you ever hear and it’s like okay what am I supposed to do now except for just die I guess