This will be a joy! See you soon, Leslie Jamison Emily Raboteau Chin-Sun Lee ! 🎉❤️

Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett!
Here is the last page of my father’s Beckett chapter from his iconic book The Making of Modern Drama.

Happiest of birthdays to Jill Bialosky who is not only an exceptionally incisive, empathetic, & supportive editor but also a magnificent poet, memoirist, and novelist. I am so grateful to have Jill as my editor at W. W. Norton & Company! Happy birthday, dear Jill! ❤️

Did I compare Sidney's Astrophil to Sesame Street's Don Music when teaching a 10th grader today?
Yes, yes, I did.
'Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,'
'Oh, I'll never get it! Never!' bangs head on piano.
And Don's muse is Kermit the Frog
youtube.com/watch?v=RrJnzB…

I am the kind of weirdo who goes through the day on a cloud of joy after finding out that Louise Erdrich has a new novel coming out this fall!
Harper Books

“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;”
William Wordsworth, #BOTD in 1770

“Mysteries are not to be avoided. Rather they are a locus of hope, they enrich and complicate. That is why we have them. That is perhaps one of the reasons we have children.”
Donald Barthelme, my mother’s client and great love, born #OnThisDay in 1931

Yesterday, my wonderful brother, Nicky, celebrated his birthday. He also married his partner of 30 years!
Love is Love! 🎉🎂🙏🥰❤️
GoodFoodMexico love and adore you!

My nephew is an art world star!
My sister’s dog, Jaco, will be gracing her work place, The Drawing Center, on May 16th! Come draw with them!
Claire Gilman ❤️
drawingcenter.org/programs/drawn…

So grateful that this wise, moving, fierce, & tender book is in the world!
🙏👏Emily Raboteau
Henry Holt & Company

'The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade.'
Andrew Marvell, born #OnThisDay in 1621
poetryfoundation.org/poems/44682/th…