This is just a list of some of the greatest books ever. They are at this place in the layers of stuff accumulating in my brain that’s linked to an age where I was thinking about so many things for the very first time. Or, if I read them later, they’re linked to the piece […]

(for “how to talk to teenage boys” i put myself in the position of a teenage girl and thought of what i wished i’d known, or what i slowly figured out. this one, i’ve realized, is trickier. I never was a teenage boy. But I’ve known some teenage girls in my time, and I can […]

or anyone, really
1. try and understand what they’re saying, even if you keep thinking they’re just stupid or insane.
2. try and get their jokes- try out their perspective on what’s funny.
3. remember that, like teenage girls, they are still largely a loose accumulation of how the world’s been marketed towards them, by corporations and by […]