#intimacies

[dk-thrive]

I thought -- I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know.

— Katie Kitamura, Intimacies: A Novel (Riverhead Books, July 20, 2021))

[heidisaman]

Writing male characters is not very difficult because there is a vast canon of male characters written by men, for men, for any writer starting out to draw from. Finding the voice of a male character is in so many ways what a Ph.D. in American literature trains you to do. What felt, to me, more challenging was to write female characters, and so I took a little bit of time to get there. Writing female characters is something that holds so much depth and interest for me. It feels almost inexhaustible.

[shihlun]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

- Tokyo Sonata

2008

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

- Intimacies

2013

[random-xpressions]

Kiss my palms for once and I'll be enslaved to you forever...

Random Xpressions

[thehappyscavenger]

"It was only an anecdote. But it was one example of how the city's veneer of civility was constantly giving way, in places it was barely there at all."

-Kate Kitamura, Intimacies

[jesush8r]

1968

[felix-vallotton]

Félix Vallotton, Cinq heures (Five O'Clock), 1898