Cate Hall is the author of the Useful Fictions (Ben’s favorite Substack of the past year) and the forthcoming book You Can Just Do Things, co-written with her husband Sasha Chapin.
Amazing! Cate, you’re always transparent about your context, but it’s still really cool to see the specific sources that you consider most influential. “psychologically load-bearing” is such a good phrase. Thank you for sharing!
I love Cat's Cradle and thought of including it in my list too!
And Rilke is wonderful. Great list.
Amazing! Cate, you’re always transparent about your context, but it’s still really cool to see the specific sources that you consider most influential. “psychologically load-bearing” is such a good phrase. Thank you for sharing!