recommendations

essays, 'essays', etc

• Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen
• An American Education by Nicolás Medina Mora
• The Truck Stop Killer by Vanessa Veselka
• Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
• The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Seghal
• goodreads review of Fishman's Acts of Service by idiomatic
• YAOI ZINE anthologized by tshirt
• The Banality of Empathy by Namwali Serpell

books

• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
• In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente
• The Flies by Jean Paul Sartre
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
• The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
• Black Silk by Judith Ivory
• Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• i'll only talk about webnovels if you ask me personally lol

poems & adjacent

• A Small Hand Grasped: Selected Poems of Yun Dong-ju, translated by Jack Jung
• Louise Glück’s Late Style by Teju Cole
• A Conversation with Franz Wright interviewed by Image Journal
• Of Strangeness That Wakes Us by Ilya Kaminsky, discussing Paul Celan
• The Afterlife by Larry Levis
• Crush by Richard Siken
• The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

other sites (portfolios, personal websites, etc)

• Ella Dorn's link directory
• Som-Mai Nguyen
• Arielle Lok
• Aishwarya Khanduja
• Jaye Chen
• Casual Physics Enjoyer

craft advice (poetry, prose, routine, etc)

• Resources by Grace Q. Song
• The Creative Independent, repository of interviews
• Alina Stefanescu - so much going on here

tutorials/syllabi

• Ming Tommy Tang, bioinformatics
• Jaye Chen, coding
• Alice Maz, programming logic

music

• Rach 2, played by Anna Federova
• Scheherazade op.35, Rimsky-Korsakov
• Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz
• New World Symphony, Dvořák