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religion

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The Book That Helped Me Leave Religion: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”

The first sentence of “The Books of Bokonon” – the fictional foundational text of Bokononism, the religion Kurt Vonnegut invented for his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle – reads as follows:…

Abbie Jones —

Oct 14, 2021

the book that changed my life

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The Book That Made Me A Slut: Andrea Lawlor’s “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl”

Trans people love to joke about having been every letter of the acronym but Paul is all of them at once. He is the ultimate non-binary fantasy — or at…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Oct 7, 2021

alcohol

sobriety

A stylized image of the cover of Leslie Jamison's The Recovering against an orange gradient background with the text 'the book that made me get sober"

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The Book That Made Me Get Sober: Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”

Reading The Recovering was like reading a diary full of thoughts I would never have been brave enough to write down. I felt something I’d only ever felt once before,…

Analyssa —

Sep 30, 2021