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Consider it your new favorite book club.
Photo: Julian Buchan
ComedianJacqueline Novaks 90-minute opusGet on Your Knees, a frenetic meditation on fellatio, comes with quite the syllabus.
I know what youre thinking: Does she even read?
Novak jokes in the show, which landed on Netflix late last month.
I do, I do.
And yet howcanI, when Im just a girl with a ponytail lusting after the common shaft?
(Novak cohosts the podcastPoogwithKate Berlant, a medium in which both womens untamable intellects shine.)
I read a lot of books with a promise to the reader of imparting some specific lesson.
Below, Jacqueline Novak shares four books that changed her life.
Could return to again and again.
I recommend her work constantly.
Ive forced people in long car rides to listen to my library of her.
She says hilarious things like, Consciousness is not a day spa, people.
Its not a pleasure cruise.
I sat in Starbucks parking lots listening in my car.
Need to revisit immediately.
Stop trying to make it easy or get rid of the resistance.
Accept its presence and go forward anyway.
And then check that to court the muse.
