Welcome @tamarawinter! Tamara is the Commissioning Editor for Stripe Press. I like to think of Stripe Press as a distribution channel for the most interesting ideas in the world. She has kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions :)

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2026 so far frenchman desire good children the dispossessed tapping the source Ice - anna kavan blindsight - p watts count zero - w gibson

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I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.

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Been binge reading this book since yesterday eve. My work life might be going to shit but at least i can still spread love in the other realms of my life.

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“Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man”

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Before our first child was born ~5 years ago, I started reading one history book per world country (A → Z); got as far as The Bahamas then basically stopped reading Got back on the horse with this pair, which is a break from strict alphabetical reading but it's actually background reading for Bangladesh (which is where my father is from) I settled on this two with some GPT help, which was great because finding history books actually worth reading and not just one damn fact after another is not easy The first one is also a signed copy which I didn't realise (I always buy secondhand whenever I can, as old as my budget allows) and was a nice surprise

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"But Boyd did not believe the performance specs and had no fear of the aircraft. He jostled the T-6; he pushed it and horsed it around the sky. He flung the airplane up against the outside edges of the performance envelope and then beyond. If the book said the aircraft should never exceed 260 mph, Boyd pushed it to 265 or 270 or 280. He knew intuitively by the sound of the aircraft when it was approaching not the book limits but the true limits, which, for those bold enough to search for them, always are slightly greater. Test pilots do the same thing, but most of them are engineers and highly skilled pilots tuned to a razor edge of proficiency. Few student pilots are so bold." - John Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram

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this passage from Wrong Norma has me thinking about Lispector. everything reminds me of her

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Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington

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Ursula Le Guin essay and short story kind of month https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/IntroducingMyself.html

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If you wanna get into love-maxxing as opposed to monitoring WW3 or smashing your bones to looks-maxx, here are three books to read. The short version is: love is a verb, act accordingly.

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Anne Carson can fix me

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Excellent list of sites for finding/reading books. https://wondertools.substack.com/p/find-fantastic-books

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Here is my monthly recap of books I’ve read. Some were good, some were not. February felt a bit slower on the reading side, most likely because I got stalled on one them for a while. Anyhow, ready and excited about new books for March, how about? any recommendations? ama

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Really enjoying Daisy Jones & The Six. Making me want to work on big projects in a team environment again. (and be young enough to be able to take a lot of drugs without feeling like I´ve been in a high speed bullet train accident the following day.)

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