A loose voice note talking about the contrast of kindness and humanization as a form of endurance, how trauma melts into voice and attentional filters, gaps in the unsaid, constructing meaning in hindsight, and Suzanne Collins being a master of her craft. (Light spoilers.)
Books mentioned: Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson; What Have We Done by David Wood; The Hunger Games (obviously); Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings; The Warrior Elite by Dick Couch; Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy; After the North Pole by Erling Kagge; The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin Dombek; Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green; Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky.
