Check out these wonderful Mavis Gallant editions scored from my little library today.

Rereading Roth's The Human Stain for some research and like most other Zuckerman novels I forgot it was a Zuckerman novel. May we all find such useful and reusable frames.

every frame of this, a shiver.

After almost 15 years of not having a dedicated workspace, today I pulled this wagon to an office I rented for myself alone. No windows, weird carpet, but mine, and I find myself like Emma Bovary, walking through life elated as I think, “I have an office! I have an office!”

when anyone on this site mentions hating a book and says like, DM me, I will always assume they mean the one I wrote, which may sound like a lack of self esteem but is actually extremely egotistical.

Bought some Easter candy for the family & enjoyed thinking about a favorite NYC memory: the time when I watched a crying woman in a skirt suit emerge from a Duane Reade and eat a 6 pack of Peeps with vitriolic intensity.

This interview for Frieze was a very good one. We talked about how Vlad the character is a 2021 kind of man, and how it would be devastating to see a Boomer fall on the street. Thank you Ian Bourland for a stellar conversation.

frieze.com/article/julia-…

Am now convinced that Instagram is like how I felt when I visited certain areas of the South: nice on the surface, deeply sinister below.

Best-reviewed titles in February @charmspen1 Kyle Buchanan Nina de Gramont Gerrick Kennedy Catherine Ostler Dan Saladino Richard Chizmar karen cheung Laura Coates Marlon James Danya Kukafka Joel Agee Garrett M. Graff Brendanslocumb Julia May Jonas washingtonpost.com/books/2022/02/…

Not joking to say that I am truly excited that my Grub Street Diary earned one of these: