Feelings

A rushed post, as the baby makes strange noises in the other room.

First, before my post-partum brain forgets, Bookshop has given our readers a delicious 15 percent discount on my and Sarah Manguso’s new book Questions Without Answers. You can pre-order here and use the code QA15.

Main stuff:

This is a bit from a project I’ve been working on for the past couple of years. I’ve been wanting to show it to you for a long long time because I’ve been working on it quietly and I’d really like to hear what you think of it. It’s a collection of little essays on how to exist in the world <as an awkward person> <or just at all>. Things being what they are, I️ haven’t reread my latest draft before posting it here. There are also some notes for drawings I️ plan to make. The drawings I️ did make were made in about ten minutes.

Feedback is so welcome.

This is the essay on Feelings.

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FEELINGS

What to Do with your Feelings

Your feelings are trying to tell you something. In most cases, they are trying to tell you something true. But your feelings speak their own languages. Some of them shriek so loudly to get your attention that they keep you from hearing the very thing they’re trying to tell you. Some whisper faintly so you can’t hear them. Some speak in far-flung, convoluted metaphors. And some only bark.