Alphabetical Diaries Sphinx

Alphabetical Diaries SphinxSheila Heti Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decades worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.

which combine singing

Meret Oppenheim (trans

What if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language

Written in the spring of 2013

gevaarlijk en vol van een duistere en vreugdevolle overvloed

a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam

but for all their insight and critique

geur van hooi

established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation

the thresholds of nightclubs—and her poems

Mamoun embarked on a daily practice of writing out of which emerged these poems of loss

Nature offers consolation