Emma Straub's Life in Pictures

Listen to Zadie Smith read this Frank O’Hara poem. It might do something to the rest of your day, like a big melancholy umbrella, but that can’t be helped. 

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(Please don’t eat the library paste, via letterology)

[Audio] Zadie Smith reads Frank O’Hara’s poem “Animals” (quite beautifully, we might add): I wouldn’t want to be faster / or greener than now if you were with me O you / were the best of all my days

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