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bookinit02 · 11 days

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conversations i had at the bar tonight:

nerding out over my favorite book, which also happened to be the guy next to me’s favorite book (that apparently he has been telling people about for YEARS and nobody else has ever read it)

gender politics and microlabels and whether it’s more important to be genuinely trying to be respectful of identity or to be using “correct” language and terms 100% of the time

the decline of young men into alt-right communities and how anger pushes them into isolation and violence

how the guy across from me is building a huge personal library and he has so many books that he can barely even fit them all in his apartment

how trauma and cultural uncertainty shapes writing & the importance of writing hopeful/happy stories

whether the american expectation of monogamy is harmful to relationships and whether it’s more important to be faithful to your long-term partner or to follow new passions

in summary. i fucking love grad school

#this is literally like. 10% of the stuff we even talked about #it’s so amazing to talk to these people they are all so well-read and interesting and like. brilliant #and i’m just Here #mostly kidding. i do think i had some things to contribute #i was the one talking about microlabels and the alt-right pipeline #but still. like.#i’m sitting here like.#i’m somehow in the same program as these people???#i am sitting here with them on a random tuesday night in a minnesota bar?#like the person i was talking to. literally just came back from a trip to alaska to do research for her mystery novel #like WHAT.#that is so cool!!!!!#anyway hopefully yall aren’t sick of me rambling about the mfa program i just.#i love it here soooooooooo much #personal

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