Thread by @lisabubert, Hi, what are the best stories and essays you've read this year? [...]

Hi, what are the best stories and essays you've read this year? Things you wish more people knew about? Favorite things you or a friend have published? Gimme your round-ups. I need some "I'm staying home for the holidays and I'm sad about it" reading to soothe my soul. Links pls

To start, I loved this one from @NatalieLima09: https://www.guernicamag.com/for-a-good-time-call/

For a Good Time, Call

On the party line, Maria and I can be anything, or anyone. But always, we’re adults.

https://www.guernicamag.com/for-a-good-time-call/

This one from @destinyoshay: https://catapult.co/stories/when-there-is-no-right-way-to-heal-i-may-destroy-you-writing-debut-destiny-birdsong

When There Is No Right Way to Heal | Destiny Birdsong

The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.

https://catapult.co/stories/when-there-is-no-right-way-to-heal-i-may-destroy-you-writing-debut-destiny-birdsong

The Survival Diaries from @believermag https://believermag.com/survival-diaries/

Survival Diaries - Believer Magazine

https://believermag.com/survival-diaries/

And I know there's gotta be a 2020 @carmenmmachado piece out there that I haven't read yet. Gimme

This, from @tarahaelle, which got me through the six-month slump and will likely get me through the holidays: https://www.google.com/amp/s/elemental.medium.com/amp/p/de285d542f4c

Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful

Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life

https://www.google.com/amp/s/elemental.medium.com/amp/p/de285d542f4c

BUYING MYSELF BACK by Emily Ratajkowski from @TheCut !!! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecut.com/amp/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html

Buying Myself Back

When does a model own her own image?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecut.com/amp/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html

Sorry y’all, apparently I don’t know how to thread tweets anymore

Also, this one from @hannasusj was from last year but it reminds me of a happier time and I love it: https://vol1brooklyn.com/2019/12/11/a-yellow-thread-or-on-obsession/

A Yellow Thread, or On Obsession

A Yellow Thread, or On Obsession by Susannah Felts And so I fell in love with a color… --Maggie Nelson And so in these dark times at the close of a decade, I find myself enchanted by a color. Like...

https://vol1brooklyn.com/2019/12/11/a-yellow-thread-or-on-obsession/

That Judith Butler interview from @NewStatesman where she ripped us all a new one in the best way: https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

The philosopher and gender theorist discusses tensions in the feminist movement over trans rights.

https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times

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