It’s been seven hours and fifteen days.

SUNFLOWER MYSTERY: My daughter went to bed with five flowers on her shelf, and woke up with four flowers and a stem. Did she eat it in her sleep? Did a deer sneak into her room? Did it spontaneously combust??

Happy Bloomsday to those who celebrate it.

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Motoko Rich My CM story: years ago, when I worked for Bauman Rare Books, he called the gallery. I picked up and he told me that the first edition of Blood Meridian in BRB's NYT Book Review ad was underpriced. I said: 'no one has ever called here with that complaint.'

Has there ever been a hornier serious poet than the Sharon Olds of “The Wellspring”?

Damn it! Someone go save Cather's birthplace, already: winchesterstar.com/winchester_sta…

Overheard on the train just now: “The thing about the King James version is the prose is so bad.” Shots fired!

Are You There, God? It's Me, Adolf
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Speaking as an editor, sometimes there’s a very fine line between “cajole” and “cudgel”

Wordle 613 X/6

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Broke my streak of 118, and my 100% solve record since the NYT’s acquisition

Radio is playing “Crocodile Rock” right now and all I can think of during the falsetto is “Elmo’s World.”

2022 Headline of the Year nominee (September)

Just started the audio version of “Jazz,” read by Toni herself, and the teeth-sucking first word (or first noise?) is a clinching argument for the glory of audiobooks.

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