Newsletter Anyway, It Was Spring Break Last week was my spring break from school. I did not spend it at a beach — I’ve never done that, not even when I was doing my undergrad in Florida, a state that is 97% beach, in the 1990s, a notorious time for spring break parties. I am very
Newsletter Who You Are, Where You Are One day last week, it was brought to my attention twice that as an artist, a craftsperson, a creative person, that you can only be who you are, when you are. When a concept snags in my mind like stringy algae on a stick in a stream, I tend to
Newsletter Happy National Grammar Day! Celebrating this important holiday that we all diligently prepared for
Newsletter Hot Takes on Cold English When winter storms bring the city to a halt, I apparently think of poetry, which I’m kind of surprised to learn about myself. In 2021, when ice encapsulated every twig and leaf of every tree and shrub and bent them to the ground, I thought of Robert Frost’s
Newsletter 2023 Reading Review Let's start this reading review with the stat that most people use: I read 52 books this year. A tidy average of one a week. Several of those were for school; a couple of them were for a class I ended up not taking. Nearly a dozen of
Newsletter Readings for October 22, 2023 I’m not entirely sure what to think of this prickly pair of interviews, but it was striking to read the New York Times interview with the filmmaker Errol Morris on Sunday and the Literary Hub interview with the author Benjamin Labatut on Monday. Both are reluctant interviewees: Morris gets
Newsletter Miraculous Nuns of the 7th and 21st Centuries A rare moment when an Old English story is relevant
