A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.
Anthony MarraEntire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
Anthony MarraShe was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
Anthony MarraNothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.
Anthony MarraLife: a constellation of vital phenomenaโorganization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
Anthony Marra