I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

So honored by this delightful tribute from one of my true heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social to Northeast Wilderness Trust as we attain the milestone of 100,000 forever-wild acres conserved. 🌲 🫎

The Polite

Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!

Mail carrier brought this gem today. Thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social. Can you imagine asking Keynes for advice on your 401k?

Just finished her audiobook reading of Cranford. Splendid. Also recommend her reading of The Railway Children.

Paging the STW hive, esp. @nonsuchbook.bsky.social! @backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.

The news is all terrible, but the Post Office’s new baby wild animals stamps are good.

Perfect listen for a summer drive about a perfect summer book. I especially loved @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social idea about “the excess of possibility” that suffuses the web of life. Still thinking about that. 🎧📚

Seen on my hike today. Peace.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery

Lilac time.

100+ year-old magnolia fell down in a storm ~20 years ago at @nationaltrust.org.uk Overbeck’s Garden. Saw it blooming this year!

“too many souls, like sacks of grain/strapped to my back” Brilliant @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Delmore Schwartz. @nybooks.com

Mother’s Day weekend reads. 🙏🏻 @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @ds228.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is very true in my experience. Went hiking with my team on a 6,000 acre wilderness preserve my organization stewards. The pageant of life was thrilling to behold as spring comes to the Vermont woods.

“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.” —Pope Francis, Laudato Si’

This, by @nicktriolo.bsky.social, himself something of a fleet-footed mystic, on Thomas Merton, rewilding, the ghost of the Iberian lynx, and Portugal’s Coa River, is a stunner. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-smal...

Which one should I read next? Also planning to reread The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald.

The Times / Sunday Times paywall is down all weekend, so here's👇where you can read all my stuff for free, with selected highlights to follow: 🧵 www.thetimes.com/profile/john...

Three studies of a titmouse or a bearded reedling, by Pisanello. Today is his day.

“Trances of thought and mountings of the mind” This glorious illustrated edition of The Prelude by William Wordsworth is my weekend read. From the introduction; “. . . the growth of sympathy and love are nourished from roots in the physical world.”@brandeispress.bsky.social

Many congratulations to the winners of this year's Science + Literature awards, sponsored by @nationalbook.bsky.social + Sloan Foundation:! apnews.com/article/scie...

New discovery: the gorgeous pictures of Han Youngsoo. And great context in the piece including the interesting characterization of “abstract verité.”

Kasasagi no wataseru hashini okushimono Shirokiwo mireba yozofukenikeru Wings of Magpies crossing bridge laid with frost I see their whiteness night deepens Chunagon Yakamochi (718-785) Calligraphy by Chieko Magpies and milky way かささぎって不思議な鳥ですよね🐦‍⬛ #poetry #japanesepoetry #百人一首6番 #かささぎの #中納言家持

I always look forward to Elisa Gabbert’s year-end wrap-up! elisagabbert.medium.com/every-book-i...

"Then all which had risen over-ripens and rots/ and yesterday on yesterday the year dies away,/ and winter returns, as is the way of the world/ through time." Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on the longest night.

From now on I'll be referring to Twitter as "the old country."

Issuing this joint press release: Behold, Kenji Panetta!

The next phase of our #KateBriggs24 group read – now #AContinuation25 – is beginning on December 1! We’ll be reading TOM JONES; I found my copy for $0.25. Here’s our page guide. @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social will be sending out the next newsletter at the end of the week.

Hey #NYRBWomen24 readers, I've been thinking about #NYRBWomen25 & I'd like to collect some feedback. I put together a short survey if you're willing to share your thoughts with me. Here's the link: forms.gle/8LRhVLq29rrN...

So many treasures in this archive! 📚 🎧

“Is not this a glorious time of year for your deep inward fires?” —Thoreau, November 13, 1851

Favorite photo you’ve taken this year. Here’s mine.

🐦 North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century. For my Climate Lab column, I made an app where you can see the population trend for almost any bird species in the United States. Play with it here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Good morning

Our own @gracepanetta.bsky.social, chronicling the crazy of 2024. 19thnews.org/2024/01/gop-...

Awarding points here for the Blade Runner reference. <Insert Rutger Hauer gif here>

DeWitt Hive take note. @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social has spoken!

Excited to really dive into the world of Barthes x Briggs!

Caption contest. My entry: “You may think you have completed your training. In fact, your training begins now, with me.”

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Mountain Top, 1968

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day

For fans of “walking and thinking” books, the new Hisham Matar looks pdg. I wrote about his “looking and thinking” book A Month in Siena here: frugalchariot.substack.com/p/issue-5-ar...

Dallas better Fosse up before the arctic blast catches all y’all

Partial roundup of Japanese translated lit coming in '24 with plenty of crime for @ds228.bsky.social and Heian picaresque for me! www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024...

One of my absolute favorites.