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The Lichen Museum by Laurie A. Palmer
5.0
“The Lichen Museum invited you, as a sensory being alive in the current, ruinous world, to enter the museum with the lichens, to see yourself as co-participant and cocreator in a massively distributed, free, and open air experiment in thinking, being, and seeing differently…”
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War by Mark M. Smith
4.5
sensorial historiography
Nate Lowman by Jim Lewis, Nate Lowman, Lynne Tillman
5.0
“I realized, ‘Fuck, I’m going to have to paint this.’”
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
4.5
Picked up this book for what I thought would be a mindless vacation read. Ended up getting completely engrossed in Bit’s perspective and the collapse of Arcadia’s promised utopia. Groff executes an impressive feat: narrating the world from Bit’s perspective as a small child putting pieces of the world together and then transporting us to his life decades into the future, tracing how he has grown and how his childhood still clings to his thoughts and behaviors.
The only thing I wish Groff had explored more was poking at Bit’s blissful nostalgia and reckoned more with adult revelations of darkness in the face of experiences that were viewed as normal in childhood.
The only thing I wish Groff had explored more was poking at Bit’s blissful nostalgia and reckoned more with adult revelations of darkness in the face of experiences that were viewed as normal in childhood.