October 18, 2023

Something Borrowed: The Epigraph Edition

The SOMETHING BORROWED series is back, in which I share items and ideas that I used to create my new novel, ASKING FOR A FRIEND. In this case, used with permission! My novel’s two epigraphs are from work by Erins Wunker and Noteboom (the latter also known as children’s author Erin Bow). From Wunker’s NOTES FROM A FEMINIST KILLJOY, a few lines about friendship as an uncanny mirror. The poetry by Noteboom (which I originally read in The New Quarterly and was published this year in the collection a knife so sharp its edges cannot be seen) lines about what gets lost to history and what survives, the chance of that, tying into ideas about long friendship and also my novel’s consideration of museums. I’m grateful to both these writers for providing such inspiration.