This Thursday!

Right before my book came out, I set up a Google alert for my (extremely common) name, and this is all I get. I particularly like the first one, set on the Isle of Man:

Congrats to everyone reading! I will be hauling ass from my own class to see you, so I’ll be the dork with the giant yellow laptop backpack. Say hi!

Jazz Appreciation Month (fondly known as “Jam”) was created in 2001 to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary heritage of jazz. Picture: The historical marker outside Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh honoring Billy Strayhorn

This must be read!

I wrote about planting a tree on Roosevelt Island last weekend -- hope this weekend brings you this much joy! iDig2Learn SUGi
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The Devil Prefers Mozart by Anthony Burgess | Book review | The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-d…

Thank you Mark, this is a lung-collapsingly good review! Lisa Borst writes better than I do and is funny and she understands things about me that have puzzled me for a long time.

Back in Nature again--note the naturally occurring Covid mask hanging from the bough in the middle.

My memoir #TheStirrings is out in paperback this Thursday from ⁦W&N⁩ ⁦PEW Literary⁩ with a new cover and some amazing quotes:

My idea of a good time, meaning the opening of the Mahler 4 in the composer's own hand. To me the bells ('Schelle') are sleigh bells, not some irony-making riff on the court jester--to hell with that!

Holy smokes, it has been a year... Bootstrapped is now out in…paperback! Official publication date: tomorrow. Happy to chat at your uni, book store or book group or send to you for review. Books Are Magic P&T Knitwear | Books and Podcasts Hamilton Nolan Meagan Day Economic Hardship Reporting Project The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast

“Louisa May Alcott converted into a tart prose style much of her anguish—and anger—at the circumstances in which she found herself, as a woman, as a dutiful daughter, as a second-class citizen, and, ironically, as a best-selling author.” —Brenda Wineapple go.nybooks.com/3xruaWt

who knows what kind of creature I will become.

—Kazim Ali, born #OTD in 1971

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Love those backwards-sounding bits (from this evening's Mahler 1, by the Fort Greene Orchestra conducted by Daniel Zinn):

Can't wait for this evening's fun (and transcendence)!
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Psychedelia.
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Delighted to be signing at the Alta Journal booth with this merry band of co-conspirators.

Sunday, April 21 at LA Times Festival of Books.