Incredible! I read it this year (pausing for Backlisted recs) and attended a live read on Venice Beach this November. Wrote about the experience too. Can’t wait for this Christmas convo ❤️

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“The tension in baseball comes in spurts between long waits where everyone can forget about it, a perfectly lifelike rhythm.” Eve Babitz

“She was one of those women whose nostalgia for a destiny, a calling, would outlast all sorts of satisfaction.”
#johncheever
Not sure why just women but 🙋‍♀️

This was a beautiful episode. Thank you for it!

Tribute post to Charles Mikolaycak. Rediscovered his cover art for Madeline L’Engle’s Many Waters reading the book to my kids. An internet voyage led me through more of his beautiful work.

Knockout Melville line on “those grand fresh-water seas of ours”:

“for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies”
#mobydick