.Kathy Jones sets the bar high for future BSurveillance musical Fridays. tom keene will be performing a medley from A Star is Born next week

The most relatable part of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is when Victor gets stressed out because of the creature so he just takes a lot of naps about it

“She sniffed about the threshold for traces of cigarette-smoke ... she even invented an excuse for rummaging his drawers in the search for French novels and cards.” Read “A Granted Prayer,” a newly rediscovered, unpublished story by Edith Wharton: on.theatln.tc/r1ONZs8

Gap reports spike in khaki sales after 'map guy' Steve Kornacki rocked them on.today.com/3eSJgqI

A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗱

i like living alone but the one downside is no one can hear me when i run the table on a Jeopardy category :(

noted, more car talk Jonathan Ferro tom keene Lisa Abramowicz

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shoulda retitled the iliad an oral history of the trojan war for better click-through

The secret to gender equality in the workplace?Childcare - according to the world’s most gender-equal company. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

on #booktok and tears (furthering a thesis- are all great books sad?) nytimes.com/2021/03/20/boo…

Charlotte Brontë, at 21 years old, showed all the signs of a young writer’s frustration: she was angry at herself for remaining unknown and angry at the world for its reluctance to know her, Peter Ackroyd writes. The author was born on this day in 1816. nyer.cm/bWCug5C

My friend's bookstore is expecting to be without power for 2-3 weeks. If you need a book right now, maybe click on their Bookshop dot org link? And if you don't need a book for a while, maybe order directly from them! A good book is usually worth the wait. #NOLA

Monday-morning tweet I did not expect to write! Emma Raducanu has tom keene high up on her list of dream dinner guests!! (Via Annmarie Hordern )

Our critic Molly Young on the "internal assurance that difficult books will not fry your hard drive upon impact; a confidence that it’s fine to be frightened or upset or baffled by books, that it won’t kill you. That it may, in fact, enlarge you." nyti.ms/3bj9dOS

More than 300 new independent bookstores have sprouted across the U.S. in the past couple of years, in a surprising revival after an early pandemic slump. The book selling business — traditionally overwhelmingly white — has also become much more diverse.

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For those who can't quite stomach abortion news every single day, I've started publishing a briefer weekly roundup: jessica.substack.com/p/the-week-in-…

Drop everything for Rachel Cusk on Annie Ernaux nytimes.com/2023/05/02/mag…

— Tolstoy while writing the Levin sections of ‘Anna Karenina’