“There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“One of my dinner companions invited me on a strip-club excursion. I demurred, spoiled by the erotic revues of Anhedonia, where the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Kate Gompert’s always thought of this anhedonic state as a kind of radical abstracting of everything, a hollowing out of stuff that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image