Chasing
First, read this: http://www.hcn.org/articles/that-familiar-loneliness-a-writers-own-relationship-mirrors-a-stegner-novel In early 2013, essentially a year away from the secondary safety net of college life, I organized a google-hangout book club to fight the isolation I felt. We met over the internet and discussed the books for an hour or so each month, rotating who’s turn it was to pick the next book. We read Angle of Repose, which I think it was my choice. At the time I thought I was more like Oliver: quiet, bright, stubborn, and driven. Like him, I saw my work as the most important source of meaning (unfortunately, years later, I still do). I saw Susan’s isolation but largely dismissed it, thinking that she had chosen it, and that she was too demanding of Oliver. But maybe I wasn’t being kind enough to her search for connectivity. Strangely, I think this book could be a companion piece to Aziz Ansari’s “Modern Romance”.
