Quoting Rufi Thorpe, The 2024 Tournament of Books, 2024

Is it drugs? Did I lose consciousness while reading it? I’m still chasing the absolute narcotic of the Sweet Valley High books.

[…] Does it vibrate strangely? This is the most ineffable category, but also the most important to me. Is the work so singularly itself that it has transcended in some way?

— Rufi Thorpe, The 2024 Tournament of Books, 2024 (via)

11:15pm on October 2, 2024 from Bulgaria.


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