Oh, awesome!

Sushi lunch! This was delicious.

Hey, All, we have two tickets to Belle & Sebastian in Chicago on Saturday night. Does anybody want them? We can't make the show, and I'd love somebody to use them. Let me know!

‘Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.’

~ Paul Auster

Reykjavik, 1969.
Photo Ed van der Elsken

yes, I could see where someone might think this latest book is about the Civil War, in the 1860s, or something to do with it. I would say, though, it's more about war in the American landscape, then AND now, and a guy who maybe captured something of that. us.macmillan.com/books/97803747…

Hey, Robert Sullivan, would you drop me a line? I want to talk with you about your new book. My DMs are open. Thank you!

Oh, man - just... perfect. Link & Thom with Night Flash Equipment, photo by O. Winston Link, 1956.

A COVID memory: April 2020. Saw this on a walk. These random acts of kind expression make me smile. Thanks, neighbors.

I like to do this now and again — promote the books that catch my eye with a giveaway. It’s a fun way to spotlight a publication that deserves attention and give something meaningful to some of my most engaged readers.

I wrote a piece for The Atlantic about how, just like we've seen with financial arbitrage, the internet makes it a lot harder to engage in 'cultural arbitrage' and why that may be contributing to the feeling of cultural stasis

theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

'Now I saw that I was more than who I thought I was—more than who I’d been told I was. There wasn’t anything the diagnosis didn’t touch. In time, even how I thought about being a writer changed.' Steve Edwards The Yale Review yalereview.org/article/steve-…

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I’m excited about this week’s giveaway because it’s a gorgeous piece of work from one of America’s greatest photographers about a critical topic. I’m sure many of you are familiar with Gordon Parks.

Ha! Funny, true.

Spring, man. It's beautiful!🌸✨