Loving Transcription by Ben Lerner.

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus - fabulous.

Up Next: The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game by C. Thi Nguyen. The author is a professor at the university of Utah.

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy: A suspenseful story of a family struggling to survive and save a critical seed vault on a remote island as sea levels rise. The full cast brings this emotional and compelling story to life.

Next up: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

A disturbing look at how U.S. dominance of global networks became a tool for surveillance and coercion. Each move may have seemed justified, but together they erode trust and risk triggering a new kind of Cold War–style escalation.

Better arguments, and maybe even better policies, get formulated when we know more about ordinary people’s lives. - Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo

This bears repeating. www.patreon.com/posts/152049...

Steeping myself in Frankenstein!

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Recommended by Jack Clark of Anthropic on the Ezra Klein podcast.

Next: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey

Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson up next!

Next up. Loving it so far! The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Rags to riches, sex with older women, a monosyllabic Hungarian protagonist, and the Booker Prize. I liked it.

I loved Vigil! slate.com/culture/2026...?

Loving The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine

Timely and dark.

If you liked the movie Parasite, I highly recommend No Other Choice.

The Weight by Melissa Mendes: a sad, beautiful graphic novel about growing up on a rural mid-century farm under an abusive father—and still finding wonder in the world.

Lucius in concert!

A precocious girl grows up amid a world gone mad—a political funhouse mirror of our own time. Smart, disquieting, and disturbingly plausible.

Imagine Atonement rewritten after the fall of civilization. McEwan sends a future academic on a quest to recover a masterpiece from the ashes of our world—equal parts detective story, requiem, and warning.

Spies, submarines, teleportation, and private eyes. Logic optional. Delight guaranteed.

Only R.F. Kuang could make a trip to hell to save your thesis advisor feel both hilarious and profound. A fiery mix of philosophy, myth, and academic anxiety—wow indeed.

Such a great season! Thanks Berkeley Rep!

Casually interested in whether an emoji in a text response can form a contract? Everything emoji and legal related is in this episode of 99 PI. overcast.fm/+AAyIOyosQ-Q

Happy independent bookstore day! Time to get that book you’ve been thinking about! ggpbooks.com/event/2025-0...

A friend recommended the audiobook of Shakespeare: the Man Who Pays The Bills by Judi Dench. I enjoyed the opening chapter with her reflections on Macbeth, so I headed over to @libro.fm and grabbed a copy of Macbeth. So satisfying.