Notes on Recent Reading

• The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

  "Perfectionism is a phenomenon, not a disorder."

• Duly Noted by Jorge Arango

  "Producing a major work like a book entails revealing a curated path through a space of ideas."

• Fables and Spells by adrienne maree brown

  "if you can’t see the small you will keep leaping from built thing to built thing"

• Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

  "We are living off expired or expiring stories. Stories that expire can no longer dance with you. They are lethargic or stuck, they can’t move things in generative ways anymore, but we often feel we cannot let them go."

• Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance

  "In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."

• Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

  "There are innumerable ways to write badly. The usual way is making sentences that don’t say what you think they do."

• Start More Than You Can Finish by Becky Blades

  "It turns out all my unlaunched businesses, unhung art projects, never-assembled clubs, unthrown parties, unpublished essays, and assorted unfinished beginnings each served a completely complete purpose."