Category: Book
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A Holiday Note from Agentland
Every December, as the world gently dissolves into a festive fog of peppermint and algorithmically selected holiday playlists, I can’t help but think that used books are an underrated gift. Used books are wonderful. They’re democratic, affordable, and pleasantly scented with the aroma of previous owners who apparently read while eating toast. They also contain…
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No rush, Monsieur
[if you’re wondering how our good reader ended up here croissants in hand, books still unread, the backstory is available in two equally unhelpful installments: part 1 and part 2.] “Bonjour, monsieur. Voilà votre café crème… et votre Hemingway starter kit.” (“Good morning, sir. Here is your coffee… and your basic tourist intellectual package.”) The…
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The Atlas of Ghee and Gridlock
Optional, but for those who like their comedies with a prologue, please see Part 1: A Summer of Good Intentions and Bad Attention. It began, as all midlife revelations do in the year 2025, with a YouTube thumbnail: a woman in Santorini holding The Bell Jar like a wine glass, promising that travel had healed…
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A Summer of Good Intentions and Bad Attention
The Good Reader There are still readers, real ones, endangered and elusive as those peculiar souls who savor airline food. More intriguingly, there are still good readers, the kind who subscribe to the New York Review of Books, even when a New Yorker piece from last April lingers in their browser tabs like a literary…
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Working from home
“I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me. The domestic, tame daily routine makes the longing for the other world, which…
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