on one-sidedness - by Ava - bookbear express
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giving without getting
by Jenny Holzer Q: What do Don’t Be A Stranger by Susan Minot, All Fours by Miranda July, I Love Dick by Chris Kraus, The Ravishing of Lol V Stein by Marguerite Duras, Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Willful Disregard and Acts of Infidelity by Lena Andersson, and the Jean Rhys quartet have in common? A: They’re books by women about women who are abjectly in love with men who don’t love them back. Maybe the guys in question like them back, or even love them a little bit, but the guy in these books are mostly indifferent and uncaring. Emotionally unavailable, as the vernacular would put it.…
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