We say “literally” when it’s anything but literal, and “LOL” when we are not really laughing out loud, but today I literally, for two minutes, laughed out loud at the most endearing little story, which I just have to share with you. This comes from a Japanese author pen-named Nobunaga, who jokingly describes himself as a confused samurai wandering through America. He writes short vignettes of his adventures, replete with observations of our culture, which he posts on his website and also sells in several volumes on Amazon.
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I spent several hours today perusing the essays and banger posts of a fresh, bright voice on the Internet: Liza Libes, an iconoclastic novelist who describes herself as “rebuilding literary taste one book at a time.” She writes on X, Instagram, and her website about “literature, beauty, art, culture, and big ideas.” Discovering her was like taking a bath in sunlight.
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