POSEIDON: They Need A Lesson! Why? Because They Broke Something Of Ours. Because They Squeak When They

“POSEIDON: They need a lesson! Why? Because they broke something of ours. Because they squeak when they die. Because we CAN.”

— Anne Carson, Euripides’ The Trojan Women: A Comic, illustrated by Rosanna Bruno

Literary history that happened on 21 April

Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice. Literally, ‘library of high water’, this bookshop floods during Venice’s acqua alta, so the books are all kept safe in floating vessels, such as gondolas, boats and bathtubs.

growing apart (maybe in another life)

“p.s. i still love you” jenny han // hanif kureishi “intimacy and midnight all day: a novel and stories” // andrew wyeth “breakup”, 1994 // kevin wilson “nothing to see here” // sue zhao // christa wolf “cassandra: a novel and four essays” // zhiyong jing “the longing in your heart”, 2019 // frank ocean “white ferrari” // @wickleg

maybe you should talk to someone - lori gottlieb / white ferrari - frank ocean / the poem of the soul - louis janmot / @inkskinned / x / honeybee - trista mateer / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us - sufjan stevens

margaret atwood // doom days - bastille // azra t. // carry on - rainbow rowell // romeo and juliet - william shakespeare // cruel summer - taylor swift // gregory orr // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquiston // romeo and juliet - william shakespeare // cruel summer - taylor swift // erica jong // sober ii (melodrama) - lorde // romeo and juliet - william shakespeare // the raven king - maggie stiefvater // ghosts - florence + the machine // tamerlane - edgar allan poe // the raven king - maggie stiefvater // cruel summer - taylor swift