10/03 – 17/03 – Stay True, Hua Hsu

10/03 – 17/03 – Stay True, Hua Hsu

This is very good. I do not always enjoy this style: it’s modern and quite The Atlantic-ish; but they way he talks about grief is rare. Grief lives in association with memory—and much like memory involves building these totally complex maps of associations and imagery; often spiralling into mutual unintelligibility, self-doubt, and paralysis. So much of the world—which in any case can feel a bit like a dull slideshow with wacky transition animations at the best of times—is scarred by those memories, and the loss of that person. Hsu gets this. I feel for him: it is truly an awful thing.

I’d recommend listening to Losing Haringey with this one.