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“Lit Hub Daily October 19, 2026 Kristin Grogan considers new collections of Sylvia Plath’s writing What makes a bad literary adaptation bad?”
“Without a smartphone, I cannot participate in the cycle of rejection.”
“August Lamm ℗ 2026 Penguin Random House, LLC.”
“When my friends use their smartphones, I just sit there, looking like I’m trying to prove a point.”
“Available from Vintage Books, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.”
“Article continues after advertisement In public spaces, availability is rare.”
“Your relationship to technology says something about your relationship to the world.”
“Yet we are not willing to make ourselves available.”
“In spaces of universal digital absorption, we don’t talk to each other at all.”
“The more we talk to each other, the less we have to fear.”
“It’s mass rejection.”
“* I’ve begun to think of social unavailability as a cycle of rejection.”
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“It is far more pleasant to share a space with someone who, however subtly, acknowledges that you exist.”
“She is the author of one art book, Crosshatching in Pen & Ink , and a forthcoming novel.”
“You made a difference in someone’s day, reinforcing their faith in the goodness of strangers.”
“It makes everyone uncomfortable.”
“The unavailability of others is so disturbing, so disabling that our only defense is to become unavailable ourselves.”