cosmias

i am drawn to art cinema, camp & queer aesthetics, divas of the silver screen (from bette davis to shah rukh khan), dramas, documentaries, romance, and horror.

these are a few of my all-time favourite films:

my favourite genres are [alt-/art-/dance-/indie-]pop, disco, r&b, and [neo-]soul.

musical artists whose work i largely enjoy include alvvays*, björk, caroline polachek*, charli XCX*, cocteau twins, d'angelo, erykah badu, FKA twigs, grace ives, imogen heap, ivy, jai paul, janet jackson, japanese breakfast*, joanna newsom, kate bush, kelela, mariah carey, ML buch, oklou, outkast, the pharcyde, pinkpantheress*, PJ harvey, robyn, sleater-kinney, solange, the supremes, and tennis.

artists i have seen live are marked with an asterisk (*)

a non-exhaustive list of novels i adore:

• The Idiot and Either/Or by Elif Batuman
• Villette by Charlotte Brontë
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
• Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Beloved and Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Argonauts and Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

i mostly gravitate towards literary fiction and memoir. sometimes i read critical theory and film/music/literary criticism, but not nearly as often as i ought to.