Beti chilling at her second home.

Let’s reread ‘To the Lighthouse,’ the perfect book for the melancholy that takes over when the end of the summer comes closer and closer…

In case anyone wants to check out the story I just published in the Saturday Evening Post! The Birds of 2020 saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/08/the-bi…

Intense begging in process.

I don't know how to put it, but the first real day that feels like the fall in New York feels like such a blessing and a new beginning?

We’re all yammering away about whatever we are and all the while Guillermo del Toro is trapped in a haunted hotel

The best film I've seen so far this year, Victor Erice's CLOSE YOUR EYES, opens in New York today. It's magnificent! See it! vulture.com/article/victor…

I interviewed Victor Erice. vulture.com/article/victor…

Beep.

Afternoon walk in Central Park. Beti explored a stream and drank from it, went say hi to the tourists, and lied in the sun.

Today, on Borges’s birthday, it feels appropriate to celebrate that there are only three weeks until the release of the Oxford Academic Handbook of Borges 🎉📚 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

May your Thursday be as peaceful as Beti's.

Obviously I read Ocampo's stories and Bioy's novella in the Spanish original, but I can't think of any other @NYRB book that I like better than these. Let's add my two favorite crime novels to the list.

Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón made a TV show that I really like vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor…

Okay, let’s do this again.

End of the summer. Beti.

Exciting news! 🚨🗣️ Our upcoming edited collection, Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds, is on the way. Stay tuned! routledge.com/Soundscapes-of…